'68 GE AM/FM clock radio

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Originally Posted by DaveWM

wow that looks like a frankenradio....

Back around 1971, my father worked for a big insurance company in NYC, and had easy access to a shop that sold off the GE factory reject boards intended for these radios. He got me a bunch, and I was able to get some of them working, and I built a cabinet for one of these.

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I did modify the FM front end, changing the bipolar RF amp to a MPF102 JFET, to have better dynamic range, which makes for less intermod distortion products across the FM band. The FM band in the NYC area really tests the quality of an FM tuner.