[Eric]

Going form 82 or 85v to 90 isn't going to change anything to terms of the volume. Now if you where going from 100v to 180v on the 71A that would increase the volume some. If you have a pm spkr & output transformer I'd give that a try instead of the horn. The horn may not be working up to it's full potential.
Looks like you have a resistor solder across the gird leak , what value is it?
Back in the '20's the common type the antenna was two poles extend from the two farest point of the roof. A wire extended across both poles and then a down lead to the set. In total about 70-90' and up 35-50' high.

Terry

I only have about 15' of ant strung in my garage so that may be a problem, in fact I use a signal gen to help me zero in on stations and when hooked to the ant lead I get a boost in volume. That resistor is 330k (all I had) the original Pilotohm 300k is open look as thought they used it as a fuse as it has a glass body.

Lose that 330K job it's way too low in value and replace it with a 1 or 2megohm. Although it looks like a fuse it isn't. It provides the grid bias for the detector stage. Recheck the origial one with a meter that will read up to 10megs or so. It maybe ok.

Terry

Terry.
You nailed it! I guess I'm more dyslexic than I thought the Pilotohm says 3.meg I was seeing .3 meg,  Vol  is good sill not use to using  three controls to find the stations. Thanks

Eric