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Help needed for a Philco-Tropic Radio, model 3000, code 121
sv2hwh
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01-15-2019, 09:19 AM
Hello friends!!! Happy new year!!!
Back in action after a long time...
After replacing 7B7 tube, noise heard but not music  Icon_biggrin So i started checking DC values... results was not good, but restored. Still no reception... "digging" continued and found something interesting...

   

This is an accurate schematic i've found (an old Ron Ramirez's reply) although it is for a different model. The tubes are different but the components values and positions are the same. But...

   

...Z1 transformer seem to have (at the schematic) 5 active pins (1, 3, 4, 5 & 6) although at the radio are only 4 (1, 3, 4 & 6). So pin #4 of 7B7 tube seem to have ...nowhere to connect. Furthermore, this tiny, white component with the red line in the middle, i have no idea what might be...

Thank you in advance!!!
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01-15-2019, 10:56 AM
Hi,
Do to it's placement it is probably a small value cap (like 2mmfd) although it looks like a small choke but connecting a choke there would be problematic. A small cap would increase the gain but lower the selectivity by adding to the coupling between the two stages.

GL and good DX
de N3GTE
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I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
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01-18-2019, 05:49 PM
Good evening!!!
Indeed Terry, it is a 3pF (or 3mmFd if you preffer) capasitor!!!

   


But still haven't found where to connect pin #4 of 7B7 tube..... 

So, still searching...
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02-23-2019, 05:25 AM
Good morning friends!!!
I'm very happy because, finaly, music heard!!!!!
It seems that this little black wire, twisted on the white one (whitch never found on radio but clearly shown on schematic) is quite critical for the radio to have reception or not.

   

   

   

At first i had reception at SW and after a thoroughly cleaning of the selector switch, BC is also at speaker!!!!!!!!

I want to THANK you all for your help!!!!

Have a nice day!!!

Konstantinos, SV2HWH
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02-24-2019, 10:10 PM
Hi,
Glad to hear you got it sorted out. The wire wrapped the other wire at the ant coil is more than likely used to add so coupling from the oscillator section back in to the amplifier section of the mixer. This evens out the two signals so the signal coming from the ant doesn't overwhelm the osc signal.

GL
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
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