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Philco 51-532 transitone squeaks, hums, and crackles (a little bit)
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11-10-2016, 10:09 PM
Update: definitely an antenna issue. I put a long wire antenna on it after I heard a weak signal on the dial, and had a few seconds of clear strong signal coming through...nice and loud, but the connection seems intermittent because it hasn't repeated for me. I can get a station to play weakly, but that seems to be it right now. The loop is made of about twenty or so turns of thin enameled wire and has two runs glued together yielding four leads. Two the leads are supposed to connect to the antenna post and the ground post, and the other two are supposed to connect to each of the two gangs on the tuning cap.
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