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

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Originally Posted by Captainclock

Hello everyone, I have recently received from an older lady at church a couple of AM/FM Pocket Transistor Radios from about the early 1980s one is a GE Model 7-2582G and the other one has no model number but has the designation of Imperial BY SUPERSCOPE on the front of the case. Anyways I'm not too sure what the lady did to these radios if anything at all but both of these radios have the same exact issue and that is that they both have extremely distorted audio, its so badly distorted that the audio actually cuts in and out sometimes to the point that nothing can be heard at times. I'm just curious as to what might be causing these two completely different branded radios to have the same the same distorted audio issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Levi

The GE probably has the entire radio-on-a-chip design, like the Superadios.
The other one is probably a more conventional design. My vote would go for dried out electrolytics.