[462ron]

This post could apply to any radio not only Philcos. After finishing up chassis restoration of my  Philco 37-116 it occurred to me that I really don't have any place to string a suitable long wire antenna to try it out on. So it came to me that the phone wire coming into my home has 4 wires in it of which only 2 wires, the red and green were used for the phone. The other 2, the yellow and black were dead as proved out by my meter not measuring any kind of voltage on them. So I thought these wires could be used as an outdoor antenna for my radio. This wire is probably 60' in length outside my house before reaching a pole. That is 60' of high and straight possibly good outside antenna material just hanging there. I connected my radio to it and it works rather well. It is a good alternative for me as I would have no real way of erecting such an antenna.

Ron