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Atwater Kent 55F
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This radio is finished.  It certainly is not a radio that I will be using.  It will go on the shelf and look pretty.  It's fairly sensitive and so the Local/Distant switch is very necessary.  When tuning, I have to keep one hand on the volume control.  The lack of AVC is very apparent.  Since it is a TRF design, selectivity is not great.  Strong adjacent channels cause a lot of interference at night.  Since this was a popular radio in its day, it's nice to have an example.  It does reduce my desire to restore my other 55 that is in a Kiel table.  But, some day...

               


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Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-15-2017, 12:10 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by morzh - 12-15-2017, 01:02 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-15-2017, 02:26 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by Radioroslyn - 12-15-2017, 03:00 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-15-2017, 04:01 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by Arran - 12-16-2017, 04:43 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-16-2017, 09:42 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by Radioroslyn - 12-16-2017, 11:43 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by tbone - 12-16-2017, 01:44 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-17-2017, 12:26 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-17-2017, 12:32 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by Arran - 12-17-2017, 03:10 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by tbone - 12-17-2017, 06:20 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-17-2017, 11:54 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-24-2017, 12:14 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by Radioroslyn - 12-24-2017, 02:39 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-25-2017, 10:41 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-26-2017, 11:03 AM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by Radioroslyn - 12-26-2017, 02:59 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 12-26-2017, 04:45 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 11-09-2020, 08:52 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by rfeenstra - 11-11-2020, 05:11 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55F - by klondike98 - 11-12-2020, 11:35 AM



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