[Reece]

Great progress, waiting for the update. You may not need much of an antenna. Some regens are happy with ten or twenty feet strung around the room. Too much antenna can load them down and swamp them so they won't regen. You can also use a variable cap in series with the connection to your outdoor antenna to cut back on the damping effect of the big antenna. Sometimes just a "gimmick" capacitor was used to connect to the antenna: just two pieces of insulated wire twisted together for three or four twists, no direct connection.

Are you sure all your tubes are good? Sometimes old tubes that light may lose contact from the internal wire to the pins and need the old solder cleaned out and resoldered.