another colorado tinkerer!
 

greetings citizens, my name is jake and i have been working on radios for a couple years now, my first radio that gave me the bug is a zenith r600 and at that time i new nothing about radios of that vintage so i sent that one to a pro to restore the chassis, after some research and receiving a philco 51-1730, i recapped and had my first success, i was hooked!! my second radio, (which is my favorite console i own) is a belmont model 902, another home run, use the radio frequently. then i thought i would try to get this precision es-500a going and it now works really good(uncalibrated, fun to play with tho). so now i have a hoffman 7m140 that i am working on and could use some help with!! thank you very much and am looking forward to another classic electronic device that works better than new!!

Welcome! I'm the proud owner of a rare Philco 37-665B and Zenith 11S474: both in excellent condition. BTW I can receive KOA on both from here in Plattsmouth, NE.

I live about 5 miles LOS from the KOA broadcast tower in Parker. Dont even need the antenna connected lol. Can you tune in XEW 900 from Mexico in Nebraska?

Welcome to the herd!

Welcome easyvision54 to the family! :banana:

thanks, i like to dx on the am and get kfab frequently, wgn Chicago comes in once in a while on the t-o as does some station in utah.

hi , i see you are from lincoln!! i lived in lincoln for 13 years before moving to co, worked at pro body shop inc. on first and cornhusker(i think its a used car lot now)

I can't seem to receive XEW. I'll try soon.

Welcome to VK! A friend of mine, Pat Woodard, is a newsman @KOA. I can pick him up early winter mornings here in MN.

Welcome! I have my grandfather's plastic Philco 53-656 radio that has two bands and 5 tubes.