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I bought this Saturday (8/17/2019) at the SCARS swap meet. I need the tone-off knob and the back. Do you think they considered having FM? It has a large blank space beside the tuning gang, perhaps for a separate FM tuning gang they decided not to use...
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I sort of like that thing..it’s 1953, like me!
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I have this model, it sounds great. For FM I have a Pilot tuner that I connect to the phono input, works well.
Steve Chambers
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I've always wondered what prompted Philco to offer this radio, which is in essence a Philco Tropic model made for domestic (USA) sale. It was certainly Philco's last hurrah as far as a really good AM/SW table model radio is concerned.
As for FM or the lack of same - only some long dead Philco engineers know for certain. The 53-960 does have a conventional tuning condenser above the chassis for standard tuning of AM and a few SW bands, and permeability tuning under the chassis for the "spread bands" (49M, 31M, etc.).
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
