Just picked up a 1930s Battery operated Coronado

[Titan1a]

Bravo! Very, very nice.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Titan1a

Bravo! Very, very nice.

Thanks! This was my first repair where I actually had to replace more than just the caps or resistors in one of these radios, and it was my first farm radio that I've ever worked on.

And to be honest, with just my 2 1.2v NiMH rechargeable D batteries installed in a regular old Radio Shack Battery Clip wired up to a 1N4007 Diode for voltage drop the radio actually played for about 3 1/2 hours with plenty of juice to spare and the batteries weren't even fully charged!

[old_coot88]

Like a Boss! Coool, dude!

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

Like a Boss! Coool, dude!

Thanks! I think this will be my new Go To radio for Night Time DX'ing 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.

[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?