[SKW40]

To everyone
Hi I am new to this forum,but not new to radio. I have been collecting radios
since I have been around the age of 4.
I carried home my first radio the and it was a Zenith made in 1940.
Anyways I moved on to philco radios. I have 3 cathedral types that I did
complete restoration on. model 50,51,89

I have been trying to set up a really good Antenna,but I live really far out in the
country now.
I move out here after my wife and her parents passed on in a car wreck in Nov 2006.
I now have been raising my daughter on my own since then. We were the only one to
survive the wreck. Another driver hit us straight on. Anyways I had a friend give
me a service man book for installing antenna for philco back in the 1930;s

There is an Antenna listed and can anyone help me to know if this antenna is still
possible to get,or can someone help me to know the correct antenna for these
radios to get the best performance.

The book I am refering to is Radio Manufactures Service Lesson Number Eight. It
was for Service men that worked at Philco.

The antenna they sugested is the Philco ALL-WAZE
Aerial Noise elemination on Broadcast and Shortwave.
It in a box and the picture of it really good in this book.

Well I have restored these radios back to the state of being like new. There is no
Antenna impedance ever given for these radios,so it hard to know what that would be.

Well if anyone knows where I can get an antenna like this or how to make a really good
antenna for someone who lives about 150 to 200 miles away from the radio station
please help.

Dallas is my Closest spot,and that near 150 miles from me.
Same for Shreveport,Lousiana

I am really in the middle of no where.

Texarkana is about 75 to 80 miles away. We tested the radios at a farmers house
on an old philco antenna like I listed and was able to get Dallas on all of the radios.
The Philco 51 outperformed the Model 50 and 89. The 89 you would have out done
the 51 since it has a RF tube stage in front but it did not.
Anyways we peaked each stage of the radio using his antenna to get max performance.
He said I really needed to find one of those type of antennas.

Well please help anyone if you can

Thanks
SKW40