that peppered the gaps between the international bands.

I used to surf the globe with these while quite young and not only hear music from allover but I dug industrial and noise-electronica with all those ancient forms of data Telex etc. Proust reference, so went Garrison Keillor on PHC. The hot dusty smell of tubes! À la recherche du temps perdu, memory of my time at Purdue. I remember that local store as a kid growing into a hobby and then getting parts there. Both were consumer electronics then with the “white label” brands and parts via catalog sales, like Newark parts only which not only is still around but swallowed up MCM.īack then Japanese goods like these had the image that Chinese goods have now. (sp) Checking I see that Allied has many stores in many states but is parts only now. You bet your sweet bippy that our local independent Lafayette Radio Supply got lots of calls back then from people thinking they were connected with the Lafayette that is in the link above. Officially by the post office I live Laff,In. Posted in Radio Hacks, Repair Hacks, Teardown Tagged radio, shortwave Post navigation If you want to learn more about restoring old radios, we have just what you need to get started. This radio reminded us of the Radio Shack DX-160, although that one was solid state. did manage to demonstrate picking up some AM broadcast stations, though. There isn’t much to hear on the shortwave bands anymore, especially during the day. Otherwise, the radio still seemed serviceable after all these years.

He also had to replace the filter caps, another common failure on these old radios. As is often the case with radios this old, it appears this one had a repair done to its power switch and it didn’t mean approval so he redid the repair. gives us a look at the inside and the always interesting hand wiring under the covers. With seven tubes, radios like this would soon be replaced by transistorized versions. The radio looks very similar to an Eico of the same era - around the 1960s. He also found it was very similar to a Layfayette receiver, also made in Japan, confirming our suspicions. found a nice example of this Canadian radio and takes it apart for our viewing pleasure. We’ll admit we haven’t heard of the AGS-38, it reminds us of the shortwave receivers of our youth, and it looks like many that were made “white label” by more established (and often Japanese) companies.

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