[NJARC] Newbie with unusual radio

[Edward Otte]

Joe,

First of all I want to say I appreciate everyone's help that has been
offered here. My little problem here has offered me the opportunity to study
a bit and learn a bit and I am grateful for what has been shared with me so
far. And allow me to say I have already learned a load. 

In another forum I was able to glean a schematic that was close. Close
enough that I started to do a better buzz out of my chassis. It all started
to make a little sense to me. What I used to know, which was minimal, came
flooding back. Then I started looking for myself (always best) in Riders. It
just seemed to me unacceptable that my model did not exist in such an
exhaustive work. 

Now I must say brand name, trade name, manufacturer, model etc. are just a
bit confusing, and to some extent still somewhat difficult for me to
understand but I must think back then not today. My radio is a Beverly,
model 2088, but as I am learning it is a store brand name. The closest thing
is a US Radio chassis. Doing the research it seems that all of these
companies were somewhat interdependent. US Radios made radios for Airline.
Airline was later called Warwick (I think) and US Radio built the same radio
for many other companies and the basic design can be found in Montgomery
Ward models and trade names, and a few others. So the best I can tell, my
radio was built, maybe even designed by US Radios for Airline, later
Warwick, and offered for sale, probably at Macy's under the store name
Beverly. Piece of cake, huh. 

But it was good learning experience anyway. And now that I have a reasonable
schematic I feel better. I really wanted it for the theory more or less. I
figure I could eventually fix every broken component one at a time if need
be with a meter by hand. 

So the work progresses!

-----Original Message-----
From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Carole White-Connor
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:41 AM
To: New Jersey Antique Radio Club
Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newbie with unusual radio

Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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You might want to post this question on the forums portion of
www.antiqueradios.com. Alan Douglas posts there and he is the expert on
radio
manufacturers of the 1920-30s. If Alan doesn't know, then no one does.

Joe Connor
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