[Sandy G]

Dug a little more into it today. 3 of the 5 01As are good, one I tested as an 01A, it tested fine, but it had no ID. The radio LOOKS like it would work if I had a suitable power supply for it. I think I'm gonna take it & have it refinished, though. I found a tag inside think it was from 1926. This radio prolly wasn't used too long, just judging from the general condition its in. The old battery TRF sets ate batteries up pretty good, people sent them to the attic pretty quickly when AC sets became available in '28-'29. This one's unusual in that it has an integral speaker. Listening to the radio was sort of a PITA back in the day-you had the radio, the smelly, dangerous batteries, you had the speaker, you had the 17.5 miles of aerial, speaker wire, power wires, & then you had to have the finesse of a safecracker to tune one of the dern things, w/their 3 dials. They weren't too sensitive, you picked up the signal, the Model T starting next door, the powerlines, etc, etc....But that was THEIR internet, Ipods, Blackberries, 80 years ago. It was Majick...Hearing voices thru the air from somewhere far, far away...To some of us, hearing an 80 yr old set, it STILL is...