Added: Sep 6, 2008
From: vwestlife
Duration: 5:7
I forgot I had this thing until I was rearranging my shelves of equipment. It's from the early '60s, and has extremely heavy (for its size) solid metal construction, designed to look like a car radio of the time. It's just a tuner, not a complete radio, so I ran it through the tape input of my Kenwood receiver/amp. It has a bandwidth switch, but you can't really hear the difference due to the limited frequency response of my camcorder's microphone.The tuner is all original, including the tubes and capacitors, and works fine, but it could probably use a realignment because the sensitivity drops off noticeably above 1200 kHz (at least using the included loopstick antenna), and the whistle notch filter that is supposed to be centered at 10 kHz actually has the notch at 10.7 kHz so it's not really effective at silencing adjacent carrier whistles.
Channel: Tech
Tags: aj-21 aj21 am antique classic fidelity heathkit hi-fi hifi high iboc radio stereo tube tuner vacuum valve vintage wabc
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings) Views: 247 Comments: 2
dann2ptf Says:
Oct 18, 2008 - I listen to WABC's Saturday Night Oldies on a 50 year old Grundig-Majestic.
retrochad Says:
Sep 6, 2008 - Wow! I really like the design of that tuner and it sounds really nice. I used to be able to pick up WABC too when I lived in Ohio but they did not have a music program then.