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Originally Posted by maxhifi
cool!
I was fooling around with it on SW a couple days ago, and it is surprisingly sensitive, even the coathanger picked up a number of foreign language SW stations. Mine is obviously physically in pretty sad shape, but the new caps made it work like new. I saw a couple of them on eBay recently, but with extremely expensive flat rate shipping.
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It's been a long time but IIRC, my grandmother's 2424 was a very good performer as well. I had a lot of fun with that set. I credit that set with helping me to start my interest in shortwave radio. She passed away in 2010 at the age of 95.
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