[MrFixr55]

Hi Rich,

For some of these switches, the wires are merely pushed in and the edge of the contact digs into the wire. If the connector is made of plated spring steel and the area contacted by the wire is slightly "V" shaped, then that is how it works. Kinda like those cheap outlets where you just push the wire in the back.

Yes, I think that Murry the K was on WINS; he was a little before my time, but my late older sister or my older cousins would have remembered him. I did not mention WMCA, 570KHz, "The WMCA Good Guys". There were 2 other AM stations based on Long Island, WGSM (740KHz) and WHLI (1100KHz). here was a local Connecticut Station, WTIC, (600 KHz). I never heard the station, but a clock with their logo and frequency was in a local diner years ago.

I think that one of those buttons is for either "TV" or Phono. You may note a label that states "TV or Phono - The wireless way!" Philco was an early (Pre-WWII) producer of televisions, and many of their models or proposed models did not have a sound amp, figuring that the existing radios could fill the bill. I don't know what the frequency of the transmitter or the receiving frequency was. I assume that it was adjustable between 540 and 600 MHz. If so, then the button may have been used for a station at the beginning of the dial if the user did not have a wireless phono or Philco TV with this feature. RCA may have had a similar idea for TV, as some of their radios of this period had an "RCA Jack" labeled "Phono or TV" and a switch for that purpose. For years, both before and after WWII, RCA and many other radios had some sort of connection for an external phonograph, using the Radio's audio section. THese connections were also used for early FM convertors.