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"...The volume regulator stopped being an antenna attenuator..."
From my grasp of the circuit , ( which isn't good), that seemed a little silly, trying to insert resistance between the antenna and the first stages. The majority of attenuation ( or perhaps I should say 'gain'), appears to be accomplished by the grounding of the cathode of that 3rd 24. But like you, I would have thought our interests in "authenticity" would lead to a substitute of a triode tube with those twin diode sections,. . . NOT (GASP!), a semi-conductor in a 90-year-old radio! [Image: https://philcoradio.com/phorum/images/sm...on_eek.gif]
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2019, 02:05 PM by Jake Blake.)
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RE: Philco 570 - by Jake Blake - 05-15-2019, 01:21 PM
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