08-27-2026, 05:38 PM
Mr. Fix;
Up until 1953, when they finally abolished the license fees, my neighbor told me they had radio inspectors who would go around and look for outdoor antennas, so on his childhood home they nailed the antenna wire along the soffits of the house. These were garden variety government employees who spent much of the day "flying a desk", not RF engineers, they didn't have "radio detector vans" not even fake ones like they had in Britain.
As for a schematic, try this page https://pacifictv.ca/schematics/philco94data.pdf he has a lot of schematics for Canadian built sets if this doesn't work https://www.pacifictv.ca/philcoschematics.htm#philco.
Regards
Arran
Up until 1953, when they finally abolished the license fees, my neighbor told me they had radio inspectors who would go around and look for outdoor antennas, so on his childhood home they nailed the antenna wire along the soffits of the house. These were garden variety government employees who spent much of the day "flying a desk", not RF engineers, they didn't have "radio detector vans" not even fake ones like they had in Britain.
As for a schematic, try this page https://pacifictv.ca/schematics/philco94data.pdf he has a lot of schematics for Canadian built sets if this doesn't work https://www.pacifictv.ca/philcoschematics.htm#philco.
Regards
Arran
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