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Philco Canada 35A or 41-712 Tropic
Ron Ramirez
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11-24-2014, 10:07 PM
Once again I am happy to say...It's Alive...

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00011.jpg]

I'm sure you folks are wondering about that speaker...

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00012.jpg]

I hit every hole with fabric glue; that is the dried residue you see in the photo above. The speaker actually sounds amazingly well, considering the cone was damaged in the manner it was. It sounds better than my 42-720.

Observations:

1. It tunes my SSTRAN very broadly. As I then proceed to go up the AM band, after leaving my SSTRAN signal it breaks into oscillation briefly, then the rest of the band comes back and tunes normally. I do not notice this oddity on either of the SW bands.

2. The on-off switch seems a bit flaky.

3. The tone control, which is part of the on-off switch, is not functioning.

Otherwise, all seems well. I let it play for about 20 minutes and the transformer didn't even warm up. I still need to replace the antenna and ground leads as the originals are pretty badly frayed.
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Ron Ramirez
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RE: Philco Canada 35A or 41-712 Tropic - by Ron Ramirez - 11-24-2014, 10:07 PM
RE: Philco Canada 35A or 41-712 Tropic - by Arran - 11-25-2014, 02:37 AM



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