I am picking this up later today. It's a Westinghouse Globetrotter.
I used to have one so recapping won't be a chore.
Now if I can only get the photo to load
Oh my, that looks very nice. Usually all I see around here are the early 30's or postwar Westinghouse consoles. Looks like you scored a great find!
Wow.. nice. I love those big dials.
That is just plain nice.
Jerry
Very nice, how about a closeup of the dial scale so we can drool on it.....
Mike
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Nice... all bandspread bands. Should be a dream to tune in SW.
Thanks Brenda. One the one I had before, I could pick up SW but there is not much on several bands. What I do pick up usually is things I can't understand in another language. . But I like to make sure that the radio works as it should. There is one of the knobs on the side that rotates the antenna and that does make a difference. In total the radio has 7 knobs
Hmm, I see three knobs on the front, and you said there is one on the side. Where are the other three knobs?
Each side has two knobs on it .. At the moment I don't remember what the function of each is but they are there. If you can enlarge this you can see where they go into the chassis. This photo was taken from the radio I used to have but they are the same.[
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Dan,
The secret to SW listening is knowing which band and when.
During the day, your best bands are 31m, 25m, 19m, 16m and 13m.
Evenings 49, 41, (the B band on this radio) and 31 are best. These bands are good during the day as well during the winter months. Lots of English language broadcasts still available from the likes of China Radio International, the BBC, etc. Even our despotic neighbor to my north has English language broadcasts Voice of Korea (as opposed to KBS world service out of S. Korea). Then of course there are the numerouse religious broadcasters and wingnuts out of the US.
Hi Dan,
What a great find! I see the unit has an RCA antenna. Is that what the RCA decal on the front above the push buttons indicates? Regards,
Hmm, that might actually be an RCA unit, not a Westinghouse. Still a very nice looking radio and unusual having controls on the sides like that. RCA didn't do that overly much until the postwar era with units like my little 45 player/radio console.
By golly, I DO see an RCA Victor logo right above the pushbuttons.
Kinda of obvious in big letters on the rotating antenna too!
Thanks for posting the dial scale photos. That is one great radio.
Mike