2 AM/FM Pocket Transistor Radios from the early 1980s having issues

[maxhifi]

Just a wild guess, if they both are misbehaving, are you using the same 9V battery in both of them?

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

Just a wild guess, if they both are misbehaving, are you using the same 9V battery in both of them?

Yes I was using the same 9V Battery and I did end up subbing a known good battery and it turned out it was the battery causing the problem, turns out the battery I was using was bad so I subbed with a known good 9V battery that was only ever used for battery backup on clock radios and sure enough the radio worked fine! Go figure...

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Yes I was using the same 9V Battery and I did end up subbing a known good battery and it turned out it was the battery causing the problem, turns out the battery I was using was bad so I subbed with a known good 9V battery that was only ever used for battery backup on clock radios and sure enough the radio worked fine! Go figure...

LOL I thought I was pinning it down with the simple answer ( always the best ). Advice holds true for the future anyhows !

BTW weak batteries show up on FM first with distortion & drifting
due to the greater load on circuits.

BTW #2 Superscope was a Sony product, mostly small stuff
like radios, tape etc & built better than average.

73 Zeno

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by zeno

LOL I thought I was pinning it down with the simple answer ( always the best ). Advice holds true for the future anyhows !

BTW weak batteries show up on FM first with distortion & drifting
due to the greater load on circuits.

BTW #2 Superscope was a Sony product, mostly small stuff
like radios, tape etc & built better than average.

73 Zeno

Thanks for the info, and yes the GE now that I got it working is pretty sensitive and pulls in lots of stations on the FM and AM.