[Ron Ramirez]

I took this photo right before I turned it on:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...90_091.jpg]

Said a silent prayer, turned the bass control to ON, and...

Lots of static. At first I thought there was a short under the chassis, so I quickly turned it off, pulled the tuner chassis up so I could look underneath, and turned it on again. Seeing no sparks or smoke, I let it warm up and it began to play! Apparently I need to clean that band switch some more. But the static went away as the radio continued to play, which is why I think there was some dust/dirt up in the band switch somewhere that I missed. I will go over it again with some conventional contact cleaner (the kind that evaporates). I had initally cleaned the contacts with DeoxIT five days ago when I had the individual sections apart.

As you can see, I have not yet installed the automatic tuning assembly - I just wanted to see if the radio would work or not before proceeding.

Here is a video demonstrating reception on the AM band - you won't hear many stations as there aren't very many near where I live:

[Video: https://youtu.be/msVZWrxI9y0]

I tried all five bands and, while I did not pick up much, it was obvious that all five bands were working as I could tune across various weak carriers and noise. Best of all...unlike the last RF unit, there is NO cutting out or static while changing bands.

A thorough alignment will make this radio receive at its full potential.

Man, it's great to finally be in the home stretch! It's only taken three months...