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Aligned it.
Amazingly, maybe one trimmer really changed the reaing (not a lot).
Put a larger wire (6 feet or close) - plenty of stations both hi and low. The local is of course very strong. Sounds well - I suspect the volume pot and a bad soldered lug of it had to do with yesterday.

I aligned it with shields off.
As the trimmers did not change much, I suspect for this radio it is not critical.


PS. Played it some more - certainly sounds very nice, no comparison to either 70 or 90 or 20. Composite detector is a good thing.