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+1 for all teevee wrote. There are a number of subs for the original tubes. WD-11's weren't great tubes to begin with, but now they are so rare (better ones came out quickly) and so expensive even ones that work are kept for display. I just made up adapters for some octal pentodes, I think, triode wired, can't think of the tube number now. Radio worked fine, amazingly well, at night from south central PA I picked up stations every 10Kc on the horn speaker, (some not too loud) from Atlanta to Detroit, New York, Chicago, etc. Amazing little set. I rebuilt my audio transformer with the Hammond bobbin and rebuilt my own "fuse" caps and all, but to do it over I'd have somebody else do the caps. They're a bit ticklish to make.
On that first night that I fired the set up, I waited until after 8:00 for DX. I turned off the main lights in the shop and just had on one 60-watt bulb. Tuning around in the gloaming and recognizing the stations, I could feel the magic of how it must have been to the first set owner in 1924.
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Reece
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