[Boatanchors] Need antenna coils for Hallicrafters S-38C
Charles Morris
charlesmorris800 at centurytel.net
Mon Jun 9 12:24:47 EDT 2025
I bought (cheap) a reasonable-looking S-38C cheap at a hamfest this
weekend... deaf as a post. At least the leaky paper caps had already
been replaced with orange drops. But after repairing the basics, still
deaf. Only station I can pick up is some religious broadcaster near 10 MHz.
It turns out that all three primary windings of the L1 and L2 antenna
coils are damaged and open-circuit possibly by lightning or a reversed
non-polarized plug while the case antenna terminal was grounded...
anyway there's no practical way to repair those pie windings with very
fine wire - so I'm looking for replacements from a junker.
Can anyone help save this radio?
thanks!
Charles, WB3JOK
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