[Joe]

Hello Codefox. Checked for opens and touched up the lugs with a pencil type soldering iron. Now I have continuity all the way through! However, I tuned to a very weak station with the antenna wire now in the right place, and hardly heard the station. Without touching the volume control, I moved the antenna wire through the circuitry working my way to the RF grid itself. As I did the weak station got louder, and when I got to the RF grid itself, the reception was almost 5X what I got at the proper point in the circuit for the antenna wire. I know it's not the right place to be, but the radio seems to pull in many more weak stations on or near the RF grid, and the volume control still works smoothly and evenly with no big "jumps" or distortion. The purist in me says put the antenna wire in the right place, but the actual reception aspect tells me put it on or nearer to the RF grid. Any further thoughts? Have you come across this yourself?

THANKS!!! Joe