Do you still use your old radios

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Do I use my Boatanchors? Oh, absolutely!! Rick Mish, the R-390A guru, recommends that R-390As be run as much as possible. They tend to get out of alignment if you DON'T run them. i've got a Grundig 2066 from the late '50s that gets run about every day. Running them is basically the point of having them, to me at least.-Sandy G

Gee whiz, I learn something new every time I visit these AK forums. I didn't realize that the R-390A receivers will actually go out of alignment if they are not used on a regular basis. What causes that? I was always under the impression that, once a radio was properly aligned, the adjustments would hold indefinitely, whether or not the set was used.

on my hallicrafters S-80 on a nightly basis. Usually Rollye James, not the political hate shows.

listen to my hallicrafters s-80 to talk radio and pirate activity on weekends

which I am hoping to restore to be able to listen to f.m. Will lack of stereo decoder make this sound awful? Can't sound too awful with a 14 inch dynamic speaker I guess

[mbates14]

actually it would sound alot cleaner. stereo is noisey. most likely because of switching noise of the 19khz and 38khz signals.