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Looks very similar to a Grundig...we have had clients bring in Grundigs and Telefunkens for repair and their performance is better than any American home radio of the same time period...the German sets are the best we have seen in tube type sets in audio quality, lack of FM drift, and sensitvity...would recomend them highly.
Had a Grundig with no AM or shortwave and just had to spray the tube socket for the AM convertor tube with DEOXIT and spray the switches...just dirty connections.
From my experience the ferrite antenna is not used on shortwave, only MW AM (550-1600). also on a lot of these radios you can switch off the ferrite and switch to external antenna only. You cannot pick up SW without something attached to the external antenna terminals.
on these old tube radios shortwave is usually 1.8-6 MHZ and 6-18 MHZ, this seems to cover most of the foreign stations. These sets seem to pick up shortwave pretty well but they may not have the sensitvity range of a communications receiver or transistorized shortwave set to cope with fading signals as well.
The best SW performance I have seen is in the transistorized Zenith trans-oceanic.
Last edited by Chad Hauris; 06-17-2005 at 08:16 AM.
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