[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

...since it's a battery set and I could drag it out into a park out in the middle of nowhere and string up an antenna and just cruise the dial and see how many distant stations I can get in.

After a radio's been fixed and working good, often you can squeeze just a bit more gain out of the IFs; tune to a weak station that's almost "down in the grass" and then re-tweak each of the IF trimmers for absolute max gain. Often just the tiniest fraction of a turn makes a difference.

BTW, does the tuning spread match the dial markings pretty well?