[OKDXA] Boatanker A-Lert

[Jerry Chouinard]

Nice piece of work.  I have to think that drawing the schematics for the 
thing required a drafting board, a set of templates and a sharp pencil.  No 
CAD tools in those days.
The alignment procedure "as noted in the manual" would keep a tech busy for 
hours.

Look at all those tubes!  One is even called the magic eye.  Besides 
broadcast, medium wave and short wave - you get a nice heater for the winter.

$10 seems a steal except you have to drive to Dayton to pick it up!

K5YAA

At 10:12 PM 11/8/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>I have one of these in my garage patiently waiting for a bit of
>restoration magic...
>
>http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=4196060
>
>The RCA 811K was a high end console with a very interesting feature.
>Seek tuning. Push a button and a 24 vac induction motor tunes the next
>station up the dial for you. When it reaches the top of the dial a limit
>switch reverses the motor and it seeks down the dial. Hear something you
>like? Let go of the button. In case you're wondering how accurately this
>can happen, the design features AFC to find center slot for you. (6J7
>operating as an 'osc control' tube) Seems a bit ahead of its time for
>1937, but if I'm lyin' I'm dyin'... I have never come across another AM
>radio like it.
>
>Aside from that it's typical upscale RCA of the vintage. Pair of 6F6's
>in push-pull for the audio out, three gang tuning cap with RF amp, three
>bands covering AM BCB through 20 MHz, six station presets with cap &
>coil tuning, 12" speaker with the big booming sound that sounded so good
>in the 60's when Motown was all over the dial. Here's the schema in case
>you want to give it the hairy eyeball:
>
>http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Resources/view.asp?FN=\M0015152.pdf
>
>Plus... It's in Dayton. How HamTastic is that ???
>
>
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