Miracles will never cease!

Thanks for the kudos.

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One thing virtually unknown about 78s from the late 30's on was there were two types produced for virtually every hit tune: Direct to disc for broadcast distribution, and consumer records done with audio compression mainly to prevent groove jumping on loud passages. Radio stations got those discs, a...

My "Country" stuff ends about 1955, with a lot of pre-war 78's. I don't remember if I posted a foto of my audition system for them. Starts out with a modern QRK multi-speed TT with a vintage GE VRII mono cart & 3 mil diamond. Then into a vintage Presto amp, University crossover, and on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6Re-f ... fE&index=8

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Free All. Not the first one.

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"Free All" (on Amazon) beats them all.
I saw it on an antique truck video and tried it...the guy was right.
It works. It works right. It works right now.

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Tho not close is size or fame, is a fully restored Wurlitzer theatre organ in a Phoenix area pizza restaurant: https://organstoppizza.com/ Been there many times, the pizza is good, and the entertainment is something else. One literally eats "inside" the organ, as all the instruments are si...

Now you'all are really pushing my buttons!

That style of post-war Maggie was one of the best engineered models ever built by them.

Powerful PP amplifiers, with full audio spectrum tuner designs, speaker systems to match.

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Every tube tester photo I see makes me think of an old Rodriguez cartoon in Popular Electronics.

Some guy was in a 60's store watching a ball game, on a CRT & a whole bunch of tubes stuck into one of those DIY testers.

The manager yells at him "One tube at a time, buddy!"

Wrecking yards out here have been fertile grounds for restoration projects.

They've been known to sell a stripped & battered muscle car residue for $20K, maybe even a title.

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When I was in single digits, our '48 Ford coupe and '47 Chrysler Windsor were both totaled by being rammed at speed by a Chevy Nomad at speed, in front of our house. It looked like the coupe was mating the Chrysler. :shock: Pop found a very nice '55 Plymouth Plaza wagon that soldiered on for many ye...

And later that night, we switched over to our little Arvin radio for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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Yep, It played on our little GE console TV then. Mom & Pop loved Lawrence's show.

In later year reruns, funny how such great fidelity was possible with the lowly EV 635 microphones...

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Years ago I had a boss that had worked for Sarkes back in Indiana.

Said he was a genius in television design, building radios & TV sets with a factory employing some 2,000 workers.

ST morphed into a supplier of lots of types of Selenium rectifiers.

He passed in 1987.

Here's the answer to finding out if a station is still on the air, what power it has, who owns it, eTc:

https://fccdata.org

Go there, and punch in the call sign and everything will pop up.

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Could be debris (spider "deleted") or something else in the throat.

Could be the diaphragm is going south.

No clue if the horns you have are serviceable.

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Yes, they play a very eclectic program of country tunes, along with native language singing too. The on-air staff is a cool bunch to gab with when I'm at the studio. We should both be able to hear it at home when I get the station back to the full 50kW. I've listened in several times from here and i...

Perhaps you are referring to KTNN, The Voice of the Navajo Nation with 50kW on 660 kHz.

I just got back from a 2-day repair session there, due to lightning damage, albeit now with just 25kW as some of the damage wasn't field repairable.

Those parts are off to Nautel in Maine for repair.

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