View Full Version : Year FM Pilot T601A tuner only made


vintagecollect
05-01-2012, 02:20 AM
can someone please tell me the year this is made. Good unit after replacing caps.

Tuning cap is weird low # plates used, similair to prewar fm but postwar. year made?? well made and clean unit.


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mstaton
05-01-2012, 02:51 AM
Around 1947

JohnHacker1
05-01-2012, 10:00 PM
I have a T601 (no "A").
The Sams for it is dated Nov. 1947

vintagecollect
05-02-2012, 03:07 AM
wow,
thanks for info. need more caps replaced, great set. performs well. tuning cap still looks like prewar fm type.

Possibly a hack version to use surplus tune caps from old band? The fm antenna has loop going back into rf or if section with another loop. strangley reminds me a little of that conveter hack circuit from old to new FM bands.

IS this a typical FM circuit or similiar to I described. Possilble transition piece?

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KentTeffeteller
05-03-2012, 07:36 PM
I think it is a transition era FM tuner. Every feature points to that. 1947 era without doubt. Pilot made a model or two this way.