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Old 03-17-2014, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by truetone36 View Post
No radio collection is complete without at least one Atwater Kent. They were TOTL in their day, built like tanks and easy to restore.
The A-K is a superhet. I looked up the schematic and it has some unconventional circuitry. I think they used their own version of AVC.
See where the volume control is located.
Seems like it's in some kind of bias line, that has a bearing on all the tuned stages.
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