05-05-2015, 09:36 AM
Different radio, different design. Apples and oranges.
Model 80 is a regenerative radio; Models 19 and 89 are not.
Model 80 needs all the help it can get just to pick up signals as it was designed as a "price leader" just to get people into the stores where it was the salesman's job to try to sell the customer a more expensive Philco. The ploy backfired with the 80, and nearly 200,000 were sold.
Models 19 and 89, when properly operating, do not need any help to pick up signals as they are much better radios (not regenerative).
Model 80 has no RF amplifier stage; Models 19 and 89 do.
Your 19 should not require any "gimmick" capacitor. That it needs this wire to operate indicates that you 19 still has problems.
Please continue discussion of your 19 in your thread on your model 19 to avoid confusion. Thanks.
Model 80 is a regenerative radio; Models 19 and 89 are not.
Model 80 needs all the help it can get just to pick up signals as it was designed as a "price leader" just to get people into the stores where it was the salesman's job to try to sell the customer a more expensive Philco. The ploy backfired with the 80, and nearly 200,000 were sold.
Models 19 and 89, when properly operating, do not need any help to pick up signals as they are much better radios (not regenerative).
Model 80 has no RF amplifier stage; Models 19 and 89 do.
Your 19 should not require any "gimmick" capacitor. That it needs this wire to operate indicates that you 19 still has problems.
Please continue discussion of your 19 in your thread on your model 19 to avoid confusion. Thanks.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
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