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I personally like the H500 over the 600 models because in my opinion the airplane style dial gives it a little more vintage look than the big slide-rule style. I have a very nice H500 and it plays flawlessly. I particularly like the brown leather military issue 500 with it's copper-like metal multi color dial, but it's pricey! I wanted to add too that I have purchased a "batpack" (http://www.batpack.com/) for my '42 7G605. The one thing to remember is that you need to use the extra supplied single D-battery pack for the 7G605. On my set it just looked like two cut wires off the battery plug. I guess they had clips on them originally, but it is necessary to have these going to extra D battery. It's quite an expensive set-up with the cost of the pack and batteries, but the set plays like a champ with no AC line interference! Last edited by decojoe67; 05-29-2017 at 08:27 AM. |
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You are so right--they don't make them like that anymore (metal chassis, socketed transistors in the SS TOs, etc.), and I for one, being a Zenith radio collector, was sorry to see them go; all the more reason for those of us with well-built tube and SS T/Os to keep our sets in working order. These radios represented a level of build and sound quality we will never, ever see again, especially from Zenith, which no longer exists.
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I give credit to people who take these outside and enjoy them as intended. My 7G is one the shelf all cleaned and detailed. Still I enjoy how it sounds on batteries. It really evokes the WWII era.
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You scored a real beauty!
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These things were fairly expensive, & they often got treated better than stuff today. My Dad had one of the "Soiled-state" versions- It was kept high off the ground where yr Unca Sandy couldn't get to it. Don't remember what happened to it, but I was NEVER allowed to fool w/it..I'm thinkin' the T/O got traded for a contemporary Grundig..
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