[Caperodder]

Thanks everyone.

Ron, the braided wire you describe is exactly the part I left off. It was soldered to one of the screw heads that hold the tuning capacitor to the chassis. When I saw that, I figured that there was no way it was factory installed part. I was wrong. I've since put the strap back on.

I can only receive 2 foreign stations at the far end of the dial in either band switch position. Looking at the antenna coil I'm finding that I have 11.1 ohms from the top of the coil winding to lug 5, (across the 10k resistor on the band switch) but 17 Meg ohms between lug 5 and ground. Does that mean that the .7 ohm winding is at fault? The other coil associated with the 6A7 tube is showing 34 and 47 ohms as per the schematic. I'm going crazy figuring out this circuit. Measuring the secondary side of the antenna coil next. (1.0 ohm, 5.5 ohm, 1,0 ohm)

Thanks,

-Brett