08-04-2026, 08:05 PM
Hello Jeff,
What you are doing with the antenna wire, or your finger, connected to the tuning condenser is bypassing the antenna transformer and some contacts on the A wafer of the bandswitch (range switch). So I assume you have checked continuity on both the primary windings and secondary windings of the antenna transformer. You can try heating the wire connections with a soldering iron. Barring a wiring error, that leaves the contacts of the switch. Maybe you have cleaned them but you can hit them again with Deoxit.
What you are doing with the antenna wire, or your finger, connected to the tuning condenser is bypassing the antenna transformer and some contacts on the A wafer of the bandswitch (range switch). So I assume you have checked continuity on both the primary windings and secondary windings of the antenna transformer. You can try heating the wire connections with a soldering iron. Barring a wiring error, that leaves the contacts of the switch. Maybe you have cleaned them but you can hit them again with Deoxit.
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