Best Portable for MW DX
 

Telamon wrote:
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Mike wrote:

On Dec 27, 9:28?pm, "Brenda Ann" wrote:

Mike

I actually have a nice tube portable AA5* with a tuned RF section that
performs excedingly well. It's a GE set. I've had some older Philcos as
well, but the GE seems to just edge them out in gain and sound quality.

* instead of a rectifier, the fifth tube is an RF amp. ?Tube lineup is: 1U4,
1R5, 1U4, 1U5, 3V4
Brenda Ann,

Thanks for the input. I'm probably going to invest in buying one of
the tube-based TransOceanics off of eBay. I'll keep an eye open for
GEs and Philcos, too, based on your input. My step-father used to work
at an old Philco plant outside of Cincinnati, he'd probably get a kick
out of seeing one of those receivers.

Happy Holidays!

Those radios had at least two different batteries. A high B+ and another
low voltage battery for the filaments I think.

Type A battery (big ass 1.5 Volt Dry Cell)
Type B battery (45 Volt battery made of 30 Type C or D batteries)

To this day, plate Voltage is called "B Plus" because of the 45 V "B"
battery.