High-Efficiency Aerial Question
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If you do find one of the Philco antenna kits, the rubber insulation on the twisted lead-in will be completely dried out and possibly shorting. When most people got their radios, as we got our 37-650, they improvised putting up the antenna in anything but the way it was intended to be installed.
Those antennae were to be installed outside, strung from possibly a post outdoors to the house, with the lead-in getting to the radio. That would make a good antenna for the set. But my father found that the antenna already on the house from 1926 brought in reception in the set very well. I ended up with the HE antenna strung across the floor joists in the basement, and used it for my radios down there.
My aunt and uncle lived in a second story flat. They bought a Philco 640 (which I now have). It too, had the HE antenna kit. It was strung across a medium sized attic, with the lead-in coming down the front of the house from an attic window. Reception was decent, being enhanced by street car interference from the street in front.
In both cases, reception was good because the RADIO was good. If you simply string a long wire antenna, about 50 feet outside, with appropriate insulators and lightning arrestors, you will get amazing reception on any radio. I have a 50 footer in my attic and it can really make a radio earn its keep.
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Resurrecting an old post. I picked one of these up complete. I have one that's incomplete with no box I plan on using. Just a tuned doublet antenna. Interesting to see how one of these will stack up against my 150' long wire.
[Image: http://antiqueradios.com/gallery/d/78458-1/he1.JPG]
[Image: http://antiqueradios.com/gallery/d/78460-1/he2.JPG]
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I'd love to hear the results.
We all tend to pontificate about 'best' antennas but you've got some good road mileage with tweaking Philco front-ends and a good side-by-side comparison with your knowledge and different available sets would be great, if not a legendary ongoing thread - haha. 
Go for it!
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You know what I mean. It can be argued to death on principle, hearsay, and what the barber said, but the reports from an REAL antenna are hard to refute.
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exray Wrote:You know what I mean. It can be argued to death on principle, hearsay, and what the barber said, but the reports from an REAL antenna are hard to refute.
Oh yes I do..........................  I just need to figure out where I'll string it up, and properly support it. No tree's close to me 
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Send it up here, Brian. I have more trees than I know what to do with. Although, I also have more antennas than I know what to do with.
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Believe I may install one of the sets I have this weekend. Lets see what she does compared to my long wire.
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Anyone gotten any results yet from testing the "High Efficiency Aerial"?
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No not yet. I've been waiting for storm season to end. I really didn't want this antenna out there during lightning storms. I'll probably get it going within the next month.
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Anyhoot, since it is a tuned antenna of sorts(matched impedance), and the radio's front end is "supposedly" designed around one. Results would be interesting.
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