Export Philco Transitone "Tropic" Model 3010

[Tubejunke]

I have had the AM version since I was about 11 years old and I'm 47 now. It was one of my first radio buys and we kept it in the bathroom for morning listening. All these years later I cleaned it up and found that it still worked great. Some time later I noticed that whenever I saw one on praybay that there were a number of bidders and the prices were pretty high for a common radio (to me). Nothing special really. Just another AA5 Philco. Not long after that I was bringing it down for a dusting and dropped it cracking the case from front to back. I couldn't believe it! It bothered me so bad that I searched and actually lucked out on a trade for an RCA Senior VoltOhmist VTVM. That was nothing special to me, so I was back in the game. I actually put my old chassis in the better case that I got and put the other (still working) chassis in the patched together case and sold it for a few bucks. The tubes are worth what I get out of stuff like that. I'd rather see a set move on and have a life as a whole than to scrap it for tubes and a dial light.

Now I see this export AND shortwave model and I just figure it's got to be sort of special. I don't care about specific monetary value, but it is nice to know that you have something that others would like to have.