Better view of the Antennas. If you plant eough Aluminum it "Will
Grow"
de John K9UWA
This is one of Jeans "Babies" We have 6 of them
about 6 weeks old. They are very friendly little
guys.
One of our other little friends......
This is the Radio that started it all
Truetone D-724
Brought home a Truetone D-724 back in 1959 when I first received my Ham Radio License.
I was in High School, had no money As part time job had to support taking the Current GirlFriend out on Friday nites.
I used this Truetone radio with an added Transistor BFO circuit and a Bandspread capacitor as a Ham Receiver.
You maybe wonder why this particular radio?
I played with a bunch of these old wooden radios. Some just for parts and many to find the best that I could use as a "Ham Receiver".
Most of the old radios I picked up came from the local dump. Back then it was TV for family enterainment and weekly
old radios were thrown into the local dumps. A great source of radios and radio parts.
This Truetone was the best playing radio of the lot. Although I later went on with real communications receivers I had kept this
old Truetone radio. Soon it was off to the military, then marriage and kids fast forward about from 1966 to 1989. One day I was over at my Mothers house
and she asked me if I was ever going to take my first Ham Radio Receiver home? Yes, Mother had packed and moved it from our old house to this house.
So up into the attic and get the radio. My old Truetone D-724.
The cabinet was in pathetic condition and when my Wife Jean saw it her eyes really lit up.......Gleefully she exclaimed " I can refinish this and it will really look nice!."
And I said yes I can make it play once again.
So it is ALL HER FAULT!!. And now we have about 300 of them!
Zenith
6s239
Zenith
5s237
Atwater
Kent
AK-206
1938
Truetone
D-724
(sold by western auto stores)
.
Crosley #167 Deco Cathedral Zenith 6V27 converted to AC Zenith Walton 7s232 Zenith 9s54
Grunow
#1291
"12
tube Teledial Console" we totally rebuilt the bottom of
this one for a customer!
as
well
as
the complete restoration of the radio etc.......
Zenith 5s338 chairside! A very nice looking
radio!!
Zenith
6s546
another
nice chairside! 2 band radio Short Wave + Broadcast
band!
I have two of these in Inventory... e-mail us if interested..
Nice Majestic 85 Large Tombstone....and YES!! that Chassis as all
chrome
plated from the factory! Even the
Dial Hardware is plated.
Zenith 11-S-474 a Super Nice
console!!
Philco
66B
Tombstone
Zenith
12-S-265
Robot
Shutter Dial
1933 General Electric Console.....one of the First Good Superhet
designs!
GE model E-86
Philco 38-116 Slant Front No Stoop No Squat Philco Sales Pitch for
1938. This is a 15 tube radio. Excellent performance! Next a Philco
40-180
Super Nice
Zenith 9s367 I think Mike and Linda Stover have one of this model
ready
to go. Super nice RCA 9K from 1936
