Question on antennas for 1930s radios

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Originally Posted by kramden66

It's a RCA t60 table radio just so you know what I'm talking about..... I did find a dipole helps with interference when i lived in a different location However a different radio but can't really rig anything outside or in the attic

The radio you have was from 1939 and is considered a Superhetrodyne Radio meaning that you can use any kind of antenna on it for general Broadcast (AM) Reception without any issues, it also has Shortwave (which you'll not find much on there these days), the kind of radio you're thinking of that needs the really long length of wire strung out for the antenna are the old TRF radios from the mid 1930s and earlier, I happen to have such an example of a radio a U.S. Gloritone Model 99A Cathedral Radio from 1931 (which was made by the United States Television and Radio Corporation of Marion, Indiana).