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Old 01-19-2004, 11:52 AM
peverett peverett is offline
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I have two of these sets and both work. They look cute,but are not good performers. There are only 2 IF sections, not 3.

Motorola portables were made fairly cheaply after about 1965 with every thing on the PC board. I have several pre-1965 Motorola 19" B&W portables which are much better made and much better performers(3 if stages). Every thing on these sets is on a metal chassis(same as Zenith).

The only problem with the pre-1965 sets is that they used the wafer style tuner(not drum). These are hard to clean and make work correctly when worn. I believe Zenith used the wafer style also.
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