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Silvertone Chassis Interesting set... with its telephone-like preset station selector and the rotating drum sliderule dial. These console sets come up on eBay from time to time and I've been tempted to bid on one, but the examples I've seen always have some unfortunate (and virtually...

Antenna Splitter An analog-TV antenna would probably be better than no antenna at all, but not much. The old TV rooftop antennas were designed to be highly directional and the analog TV channel frequencies were high above those used for the "traditional" AM broadcast band; so use of an...

Classic-Era Radio Antennas Most sets built prior to 1940 required outside antennas to function well. This is somewhat of a soft date since examples can be found with and without internal antennas a few years on either side of 1940. The type of dwelling the set is used in significantly impacts...

My "Daily Driver" Radio: Grunow Teledial Here's a shot of the Grunow Teledial (12-B Chassis) that I completed restoring a couple of weeks ago. The electrics were in sad shape but the cabinet was ding-free and the grille cloth is original. Bought this set in late August of this year and spent...