Dave's Antique Radio Collection!

Dave's Antique Radio Collection

My oldest radio is a 1928 Silvertone Model G Tuned Radio Frequency Radio Manufactured for Sears. When I was restoring this radio I found that some of the tubes were tagged with a sticker that they tested good in a "Gambles" store in 1936. This radio still works very well and will soon have a new Power supply to replace the required batteries which are no longer available at a reasonable price.

My second oldest radio is a Zeneth Sky Champion from around 1938. It is one of the familiar console radios from that period of history. It has an AM radio Band and two shortwave bands. It has a push button tone control panel and a pushbutton tuning set that allows you to preprogram your favorite radio stations on the push buttons for easy station tuning. It has a 15 inch speaker for beautiful sound quality.

This radio is a Mosley CM-1 Amateur Radio Receiver. It was manufactured in late 1961 or early 1962. They were only made for those two years. It is an interesting design that uses five 6AW8 Tubes for all the receiver functions. It only covers the 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter amateur radio bands. This is the only one I have ever seen. I am told by others that it is a very rare radio.

My National NC-57 was a gift from a friend of mine in North Carolina when I left there for a job in Los Angeles, California. I have been working on this radio for the past two years and still have some to go. I have the original sales slip for this one dated October 26,1948 from Allied Radio Corporation, Chicago, Ill. and it's price was $89.50. Electronically it works very well, I just have to fix up the rest of it to match.

This Transmitter is a Harvey Wells Model TBS-50 Amateur Radio Transmitter. It operates on AM and CW on 80 through 144 Mhz. There is a lot of doubling and tripling going on inside this box on 144 Mhz. It is very interesting how the engineers made so few parts do so many things. It seems today we do just the opposite.

The Drake Twins are all up and running. They were a gift from Skip Lantry. I used them on Straight Key Night 2003. I had always wanted a radio set like this but could never afford them. They are a nice addition to my collection.

This Drake 2B is really a fine radio for it's day. This one was a gift from George Waller W5SDV. It took a bit to get it going but I was able to use it on Straight Key night 2002. Using the old radios is a real kick on SKN.

This is my latest edition to my Collection. It is a Hallicrafters S-76 Receiver. It was made between 1952 and 1954. It sports a very large S-meter. It covers the bands from 550 Khz to 32 Mhz. It was one of the first Dual conversion IF radios with it's first IF frequency at 1650Khz and the second If at 50Khz. The reason for the low second IF frequency was to gain selectivity for CW and other narrow band modes. It also had a Phonograph audio input. A rather big but really neat radio.

A Friend called me up the other day and asked if I was still doing antique radios.
He asked me to drop by and pick up this beautiful Heathkit HW-30 Tower. It even had the 12 Volt Vibrator supply. After som tweaking and polishing and buffing the result is shown here. KC7VHS and I had a nice hour long AM QSO on 145.86 Mhz with no intruptions. It brought back a lot of great memories of these radios.

This is my latest and most challenging project. Mainly because there are so few of these still around it was extremely hard to get any information. But perserverence wins over blind dumb luck and they are working as a pair. I still need to disassemble and repaint the cases as they presently have many "battle scars". The transmitter and receiver pair work very well on AM/CW. The receiver is amazingly stable and remains tuned to a SSB, CW or AM signal with a minimum of retuning over a long period of time. The transmitter puts out over 45 watts on AM phone at the present time and has not undergone an alignment. I suspect this radio set has set dormant for a number of years but when it came to life it is a realy joy to listen to and use. Many of my friends around here have never seen or heard a good AM transmitter and this one is a real good one. Thanks to all who gave me hints about where they last saw one or used one. Here is your peek at mine. I will expand this to some separate pages when I take it apart for the paint job.

This is my Oldest Radio in my collection. It is a 1924 Crosley Super Regenerative Receiver. It was given to me by Bruce Cabot ex-W5GHG when I visited him and his wife. It didn't look like this when I started and if you want to see the other photos of this restoration project, click on the picture. This one had been modified to use a type 30 vacuum tube and an extra terminal was added to aid in connecting the batteries. I made a 1 and 1/2 volt batter for the filiment and a 45 volt battery for the plate supply. After some work on the circuitry and much cleaning I was able to hook up my headphones and hear stations coming in from all over the US. This was a real treat to listen to the radio as was done in the early days of Radio.

Questions and/or comments about radios in my collection are welcomed, you can E-mail me at: dhassall@zianet.com .

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	My oldest radio is a 1928 Silvertone Model G Tuned Radio Frequency Radio Manufactured for Sears. When I was restoring this radio I found that some of the tubes were tagged with a sticker that they tested good in a "Gambles" store in 1936. This radio still works very well and will soon have a new Power supply to replace the required batteries which are no longer available at a reasonable price.
	My second oldest radio is a Zeneth Sky Champion from around 1938. It is one of the familiar console radios from that period of history. It has an AM radio Band and two shortwave bands. It has a push button tone control panel and a pushbutton tuning set that allows you to preprogram your favorite radio stations on the push buttons for easy station tuning. It has a 15 inch speaker for beautiful sound quality.
	This radio is a Mosley CM-1 Amateur Radio Receiver. It was manufactured in late 1961 or early 1962. They were only made for those two years. It is an interesting design that uses five 6AW8 Tubes for all the receiver functions. It only covers the 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter amateur radio bands. This is the only one I have ever seen. I am told by others that it is a very rare radio.
	My National NC-57 was a gift from a friend of mine in North Carolina when I left there for a job in Los Angeles, California. I have been working on this radio for the past two years and still have some to go. I have the original sales slip for this one dated October 26,1948 from Allied Radio Corporation, Chicago, Ill. and it's price was $89.50. Electronically it works very well, I just have to fix up the rest of it to match.
	This Transmitter is a Harvey Wells Model TBS-50 Amateur Radio Transmitter. It operates on AM and CW on 80 through 144 Mhz. There is a lot of doubling and tripling going on inside this box on 144 Mhz. It is very interesting how the engineers made so few parts do so many things. It seems today we do just the opposite.
The Drake Twins are all up and running. They were a gift from Skip Lantry. I used them on Straight Key Night 2003. I had always wanted a radio set like this but could never afford them. They are a nice addition to my collection.
	This Drake 2B is really a fine radio for it's day. This one was a gift from George Waller W5SDV. It took a bit to get it going but I was able to use it on Straight Key night 2002. Using the old radios is a real kick on SKN.
	This is my latest edition to my Collection. It is a Hallicrafters S-76 Receiver. It was made between 1952 and 1954. It sports a very large S-meter. It covers the bands from 550 Khz to 32 Mhz. It was one of the first Dual conversion IF radios with it's first IF frequency at 1650Khz and the second If at 50Khz. The reason for the low second IF frequency was to gain selectivity for CW and other narrow band modes. It also had a Phonograph audio input. A rather big but really neat radio.
A Friend called me up the other day and asked if I was still doing antique radios. He asked me to drop by and pick up this beautiful Heathkit HW-30 Tower. It even had the 12 Volt Vibrator supply. After som tweaking and polishing and buffing the result is shown here. KC7VHS and I had a nice hour long AM QSO on 145.86 Mhz with no intruptions. It brought back a lot of great memories of these radios.
	This is my latest and most challenging project. Mainly because there are so few of these still around it was extremely hard to get any information. But perserverence wins over blind dumb luck and they are working as a pair. I still need to disassemble and repaint the cases as they presently have many "battle scars". The transmitter and receiver pair work very well on AM/CW. The receiver is amazingly stable and remains tuned to a SSB, CW or AM signal with a minimum of retuning over a long period of time. The transmitter puts out over 45 watts on AM phone at the present time and has not undergone an alignment. I suspect this radio set has set dormant for a number of years but when it came to life it is a realy joy to listen to and use. Many of my friends around here have never seen or heard a good AM transmitter and this one is a real good one. Thanks to all who gave me hints about where they last saw one or used one. Here is your peek at mine. I will expand this to some separate pages when I take it apart for the paint job.

This is my Oldest Radio in my collection. It is a 1924 Crosley Super Regenerative Receiver. It was given to me by Bruce Cabot ex-W5GHG when I visited him and his wife. It didn't look like this when I started and if you want to see the other photos of this restoration project, click on the picture. This one had been modified to use a type 30 vacuum tube and an extra terminal was added to aid in connecting the batteries. I made a 1 and 1/2 volt batter for the filiment and a 45 volt battery for the plate supply. After some work on the circuitry and much cleaning I was able to hook up my headphones and hear stations coming in from all over the US. This was a real treat to listen to the radio as was done in the early days of Radio.