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Thank you all and for a lot of good info and interesting reads. Back on the first page someone asked if I had made sure that the three variable capacitors were turning in sync. Indeed they are via what looks like leather strands.

I can't find a need for any repair that has been mentioned like coupling caps or whatnot. The radio works fine. I just didn't know what I was doing as far as properly operating it. On superhets; most of the time if you need an external antenna at all, nearly anything will work. Even an old UHF bow-tie! LOL! Duh! That was pretty dumb of me, but I was trying everything.

With a set that old in the great condition it is in, I hate to say it but it's going to end up more of a conversation piece than something that I use regularly. I am working on getting one of two Zenith Transoceanic 600s working. One is actually the brown leather case model that supposedly is the mother-lode of that type radio. I like the black one better, so I will probably let go of the leather one to recoup what it takes to get the other going.

I do plan on stringing a lot of wire and grounding to my wall receptical on the Atwater Kent just to see what it is capable of. I replaced the #80 rectifier just because I had others that tested stronger. The radio seems a bit louder, but that may be my imagination.....