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

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

Just a wild guess, if they both are misbehaving, are you using the same 9V battery in both of them?

Yes I was using the same 9V Battery and I did end up subbing a known good battery and it turned out it was the battery causing the problem, turns out the battery I was using was bad so I subbed with a known good 9V battery that was only ever used for battery backup on clock radios and sure enough the radio worked fine! Go figure...