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Help with Phono - RCA Victor 18t AM Radio
I bought a 1940 RCA Victor AM / Shortwave Radio today. Model 18t.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_18t.html Pics are below. Ok - Im cleaning it up and it runs pretty well. Decent sound.. Stations work.. etc.. BUT... For the life of me i can figure out how to use the Television/Phonograph audio jack. There is no button on the front to indicate its use. The jack on the back looks like a standard RCA - but in reading up online i think it may have used a quarter inch RCA jack instead. I have tried a standard RCA and a quarter inch adaptor. Nothing happens. I have put it in every setting on the front - and it still just plays the radio... Ideas? I would love to be able to plug in an FM radio or Phonograph to it... Please Advise...
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tried - but
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Seems to do the same for AM - or the Shortwave.
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Without question it is the tone switch. Check you may want to take it apart and clean the switch and in the process figure it out
http://www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByM...1/M0014801.pdf |
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So i wonder which mode it has to be in on the right then.. A B C or PB I will play with it some more...
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Working!
Ok - update.
I did two things. 1. I cleaned out the RCA jack a bit in the back. 2. I found an OLD RCA jack from the 60s... momo analog... and sure enough - that worked. I did need to use the tone dial - and the radio did keep coming through - until I got the RCA cable in to work - then it over road the radio. =) Thanks for the help yall! =)
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The Riders shows a phono position on the tone switch. |
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I had an older RCA tube set that IIRC used the longer center pin RCA connecter to disconnect the radio section...
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I had an RCA that had a closed circuit phono jack, that when a phono plug was inserted, the radio was silenced and the input was live. The radio, being referred to, was a great performing set. Eight tube, transformer powered, with push-pull output and a tuned RF stage. What more could you ask for? |
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