[Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Jerry, 	
	
Where in the world do you keep all of this? On second thought, send me that
answer in private, no sense in advertising -	
	
I will have to respond to this later OM, right now I have to get a damp paper
towel and wipe the drool off my keyboard!	
	
DBF	


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From: Gerry Steffens <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: 'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Vintage Gear, Curbside Value?
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2005 10:36 AM

Your interests in audio are somewhat parallel to mine in quality AM radios.
I got started from the interest and an accidental learning in 1968 (I
stumbled into my first Scott radio).  I still have it and use it daily.  It
is an E. H. Scott Full Range High Fidelity Superheterodyne Receiver, a large
radio the weighs about three hundred fifty pounds including its lacquered
console.  The good or sad thing is that I have another thirty plus Scotts to
go with about 50 Hallicrafters, 50 Zenith Transoceanics and many more.

It is an all chromed, multi-chassis covering broadcast through twenty five
megacycles with twenty three tubes, 1 rf stage, 4 if stages, three audio
stages beginning with a 6C6 driving a push-pull 6C6 pair, driving four 2A3
tubes in parallel push-pull.  It has 2 Jensen Q4 tweeters and a 12 inch
Magnavox main driver, all electrodynamic receiving 50 watts class A which
isn't too bad for a 1936 radio.

The radio has continuous variable selectivity accomplished by a mechanical
network of shafts and gears to adjust a small variable capacitor in each IF
stage.  It has rf gain, called sensitivity, a BFO called a station locator
and an S-meter shown as the meter pointer projected onto the dial (the dial
is also projected by dial lights as shadows an a small screen type dial.
All of this is contained in a fancy console making it a civilized living
room piece of quality furniture.  Further these consoles make the Philcos
and Zeniths seem like junk.

I also have one of the two known Scott Quaranta Custom radios - 50 tubes, 5
speakers (eighteen inch Jensen L-18 bass, two twelve inch Magnavox midrange
and two Jensen Q series horn tweeters), record cutter or lathe, record
changer microphone for recording or PA applications.  Once again all chromed
chassis from 1937 which weighs in at 620 pounds with consoles - I don't have
the consoles but the other guy has them with his.

Good luck in your efforts but I still think you would get max dollars from
the bay place.

Cheers from Minnesota,

Gerry


Collecting & Restoring E.H. Scott,
McMurdo Silver, Hallicrafters, Zenith 
Transoceanic and any other interesting
radios since the 1960s
Gerald Steffens P.E.
Oronoco, MN

Collection stands at about 278 radios, 3 and one half Oldsmobiles, a 1950
GMC half ton, 1999 Eldorado, 4 Suzukis and then the everyday drivers


 

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