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Me again. To expand on my thoughts, I remember working on a Zenith console about 20 years ago that had a Zenith brand antenna in the cabinet. It was round and weighed 4-5 pounds. Did Philco make any such thing? Thanks

Hi Joe.

Zenith consoles often used a "Wavemagnet" gizmo. Sort of a generic box loop antenna. So did many other brands. To my recollection the closest thing that Philco used was a big rotatable loop in the bottom of a console cabinet.

Is your 37-650 a table top model? If so then there's not an 'internal' antenna option. You could use the external kit like Alan and Ron mention but for most people the 'random-wire' is the inevitable option.

For the most part you can achieve ~ 80% (or so) of basic BCB and SW reception with as little as 15 or 20 feet of wire as an antenna. You can snake it along the baseboard or whatever. Its akin to using rabbit ears instead of a decent outdoor TV antenna and suits well enough for many applications. If you are inside of a concrete building it may stink for an antenna (just like rabbit ears!) so if you can get some wire outside its really worth the effort. Those Zenith Wavemagnets work equally as poor inside. No magic with them.