[NJARC] Antenna for Philco 116? NO MORE Dial material

[Chuck]

Getting back to your FYI earlier Steve...
I spoke to Mark Oppat about the dial scales and he said not to worry.
He is only temporarily out of three models. He didn't get specific on which 
ones though.
Although he is out of that particular honey colored phenolic resin material, 
he still has over 80 pieces in stock and can still make several models.

73,
Chuck
AC2DP

From: Al Klase
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:50 PM
To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [NJARC] Antenna for Philco 116? NO MORE Dial material

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Hi Steve,

The 116 is designed to be used with the Philco All-Wave Antenna:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philco_genuine_philco_all_wave.html
As you may have noticed, there are four antenna terminals labeled ANT,
GND, RED, and BLACK. For casual use, hook some wire to the ANT terminal
and ground the GND terminal.  having wire outside the house will help alot.

There was an All-Wave antenna craze to support the popular All-Wave sets
being marketed in the '30's.  The usual setup was a doublet about 50
feet long fed by balanced twisted pair to fight noise on shortwave.  For
the lower bands, the twisted pair was essentially shorted together, and
the antenna was operated as a "flattop" against ground.  Looks like the
switching in the 116 accomplished this, but I cant find a schematic for
the antenna.  There may well be a balun at the antenna end of the feedline.

Years ago I reverse engineered the GE V-Doublet Antenna:
http://www.nostalgiaair.org/resources/273/M0008273.htm  There's about
2-3 more pages in the hard copy of Riders.  It involves a magic coil
that does the balanced to unbalanced trick in a frequency selective
manner, delivering the appropriate signal to any receiver. All of
Rider's 6 is here: http://www.whateveristrue.com/riders/vol_06.pdf.

But just use a wire.  There's nothing left on shortwave. :-(

Al




On 1/2/2013 10:22 AM, sgt88 at atlanticbb.net wrote:
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> Happy New Year Folks:
>
> Got a nice Philco 116 console 'apparently' working...at least it picks up 
> the local AM station...with no antenna...
>
> My question, please: what kind of antenna is best to use with it?...looks 
> like it wants a twin lead input...
>
> I have a pancake antenna from someplace...have yet to try it.
>
> FYI: had conversation with Mr. Oppat @ Old Radio Parts...presently, he can 
> no longer obtain the honey-colored dial material to make more dials...BIG 
> PROBLEM...certain of his part numbers are no longer available...
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve Tetorka
> sgt88 at atlanticbb.net
> Tel  814 290 4839
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