The PHILCO Phorum

ok, working on a 38-8. total recap, currently have shadow meter bypassed because the coil is open on it. fired up the set. no stations. I assume antenna should be connected to "red" terminal on back.
voltages on the tubes ( for the voltages I have #s for) check out ok.

I can put the signal gen on the red terminal and tune the sig gen to say 700 and I can tune the radio to 700 and there is my tone. I can tune both to other places on the dial and the tone is where it should be.

Now circuits appear to be working but something obviously is not or I would get stations.

What am I missing. bad tube?

I have cleaned the band switch.

You asked the right question: bad tube?

Have you checked your tubes?

not yet, be coming soon to a radio near me....

Well,

As a person who spent half his life troubleshooting electronic systems for a living there is just one piece of advice I can dispense: don't try to figure out what is not working until all your major low-count components are proven.

yeah normally i do first but had skipped that portion ( stupid me) as I have rarely run into bad ones.
I had a bad 6K7 now I have some more issues in the antenna circuit but it is playing now.

Well, that's a start!
Glad to hear it's playing! The rest will be easy

now on to the antenna coil check and to clean the band switch some more and see if that fixes the issue.