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Finally finished - a Philco 650B
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Thank you very much, guys; I really appreciate your compliments.

Doug: I will absolutely keep this one!

Ed (etech): I make dial scales in a similar manner to the Rock-Sea/Radio Daze method; which is to scan a good dial scale, clean it up using Paint Shop Pro (I have Photoshop but I'm so used to the decade-old Version 4.14 that I just keep using it), print out the artwork, laminate the sheet, cut it out and use it. Only I print mine in light amber instead of light yellow...looks more authentic that way, and just as much light gets through. Printing on a translucent amber plastic sheet would be the best way to go, but I don't have the capability of doing that.

I found that LW is very weak on this radio. And, wouldn't you know it, I was going to listen to it last night but the oscillator started acting up. Another 6A7 may be called for, even though this one tested good.

The night before, I was tuning across the LW band and at two points on the dial, I could just barely hear voice transmissions. It was too weak for me to understand what was being said, though.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN


Messages In This Thread
Finally finished - a Philco 650B - by Ron Ramirez - 05-23-2011, 07:53 PM
Re: Finally finished - a Philco 650B - by etech - 05-24-2011, 09:05 AM
Re: Finally finished - a Philco 650B - by Uffda - 05-24-2011, 05:54 PM
Re: Finally finished - a Philco 650B - by exray - 05-24-2011, 06:18 PM
Re: Finally finished - a Philco 650B - by exray - 05-24-2011, 07:36 PM
Re: Finally finished - a Philco 650B - by Ron Ramirez - 05-25-2011, 01:09 PM



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