Re: Fisher tube k2 early SW Band


"Mark S. Holden" <mark@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It may even be a step beyond what Radio-Mart does with stripping options
> out of radios he buys for resale.
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Yeah, but radiomart gets beat up here, not so much for stripping out
options, but for being "imaginative" with the truth in his descriptions.

This seller doesn't seem to be up there with radiomart, but he does say some
things which engage the imagination:

"Winner takes ALL"

ALL of what? Not the radio's loop antenna or the radio's dynamic expander.
Those are being auctioned seperately. And not the radio's speaker. Your
guess is as good as mine as where the speaker is. I suppose ALL means just
the receiver chassis, the phono chassis and the audio power amp chassis, as
well as an option to take the cabinet. In this case, the word ALL doesn't
mean ALL of the original radio.

"Receiver has been tested and powers up ok."

The receiver has been tested, but there's no reason to think it passed it's
test OK. In fact, I wouldn't expect it to work without it's 0A2. Unless I
miss my guess, the radio uses a gas discharge regulator (the 0A2) to
stabilize the voltage to the radio's local oscillator. Without that tube,
the radio just won't work. Inexperienced people sometimes think those tubes
are defective because they glow internally as they work, much like a neon
sign. "powers up", in this case, seems to mean little more than "all the
tubes glow clean".

Not there's anything wrong with being obtuse about the radio's condition.
It's an Ebay auction. I've bought several dead radios through Ebay. But I
prefer sellers who are more forthright about what they're selling.

Frank Dresser









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