[Ron Ramirez]

...you know me...can never leave well enough alone...

No worries, this is a "good news" post.

After telling Debbie about my work on the TA-600, she asked if I was going to try it out tonight.

I thought about it, and decided, "Why not?"

So I hooked it up to a pair of speakers and hooked up my Terk FM antenna.

I plugged it into my Variac...and brought it up slowly...

At 100 volts it began to play - only in the left channel.

While twisting the balance control, suddenly the right channel sprang to life!

The FM is mono - no multiplex decoder as this set was built before the FM Stereo standard was finalized - but it sounds great!

So now I need to apply DeoxIT to all of the controls and switches, followed by FaderLube to the volume, bass, treble, and balance controls.

I have more work to do to it as well...five more electrolytics, the death cap, plus adding 10 ohm resistors to the 6П14П cathodes, and a mod to the phono circuitry...and this unit should then be good to go.

But I am really glad to have heard it sing for the first time in who knows when.

Note: The TA-600 does have a MPX output and stereo MPX inputs, so with an external FM multiplex decoder this receiver can pick up FM Stereo. That will come later.