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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Background RF noise is a real problem on the AM band, and the loss of clear channel powerhouses meant many smaller stations on same frequencies across the US add up to more noise. Culprits like Ooma phones, LED lights, Wi-Fi routers, switching wall warts, lack of maintenance on power lines, and some...

I toured that site about 25 years ago when in Ohio, working with Harris Broadcast on our new studio complex KJZZ-KBAQ. It was really impressive to see just what was necessary then to make the 1/2 million Watts of high-level plate modulated AM signal. At full modulation, the demand was almost 2mW off...

Shorpy is a real rabbit-hole of vintage photos. Calming way to spend a day perusing.

You are now this forum's Shorpy.

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Love your avatar!

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I like this one...

I haven't heard from Tony is some time, he has to be in his 80's. BTW, he wrote all the songs he plays. Saves a lot of copyright hassles.

What could be a better Country song with Dynamite and steam trains?

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Here is another friend of mine, Tony McCashen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IahgkHVhQnc&list=RDIahgkHVhQnc&start_radio=1 The OP, Mike Dorrorugh has quite a few tune videos on the Tube. None of them are crap, most were done in his living room in Woodland Hills, Ca. Amazing what you can do ...

She sang backup to a tune or two of his. In memory, at least. Been years now.

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I'm not sure if this link will work:

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/3 ... ld.219926/

If the pix won't enlarge, perhaps just join up, it's free and no spam ever from them.

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