Antique Shop Pick

[dryheat]

My contribution: he's smoking a cigarette. I had a radio similar to that. After our town was flooded folks threw out loads of stuff. There was an electric organ sitting up by the hiway. I asked for it and took it home. Every time you plugged it in it blew the fuze. I'm no musician so I couldn't have played it anyway. It was sitting outside of the garage when this soldier cutting through our place asked me if I would trade the organ for an old time radio. I made the deal and got "something" like what's pictured. I put it out in the Shed and strung a wire over to the house for an antenna. I listened to very scratchy talk in foreign languages. Something that might have been Morse code. Some channel just produced some kind of oscillation. I played with it for a while and then joined the navy and sold the radio to someone for maybe $25. One of the better deals I ever made.

[Merc]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge...Im going to ask for more.

The back of the chassis has screw terminals for an antenna connection. My goal is to pick up one "weak" AM station that plays music period with the radio. Any suggestions on a suitable antenna?

I have a second one of these I may move once I determine my new radio is complete. If anyone else is a nostalgic person....





Strong station....

https://youtu.be/fRBa1UMB_bs

The weak station...

https://youtu.be/4AM8UJDtbtI

Here’s some information on antenna length.

https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=390841

[dryheat]

Forty feet ought to do it. That is one heck of a radio. Sky buddy, with the H on the other side. I most certainly didn't have that radio.
What I did do was try to make a crystal radio previous to. Grafite pencil lead and what ever. I actually think I got a little sound out of it for one thousandth of a second. I was wearing head phones.

[Merc]

https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf-Gernsback/Gernsback-The-Sky-Buddy-Saga.pdf

More on the Sky Buddy Model S19 R:

https://www.manualslib.com/brand/hallicrafters/

How to build the inverted “L” antenna:

https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-an-inverted-l-antenna.htm

The original Sky Buddy sold for $29.50 in 1936. Inflation calculator says that $29.50 is worth $556.81 in today’s dollars.

https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/

[fjruple]

The SS Patrick Henry was a Liberty ship built at the Fairfield Ship yard in Baltimore in 1941.

Merc-- the SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty ship built.

[Merc]

Merc-- the SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty ship built.

The SS Patrick Henry was scrapped where she was built - in Baltimore in 1958. Most were scrapped but a few remain. We were aboard the liberty ship SS American Victory last year that’s currently docked in Tampa, FL. We got to see the engine room and electrical system that’s off limits to everyone else.

http://www.americanvictory.org/

[pmclaine]

https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSH...Buddy-Saga.pdf

More on the Sky Buddy Model S19 R:

https://www.manualslib.com/brand/hallicrafters/

How to build the inverted ?L? antenna:

https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-an...-l-antenna.htm

Very helpful.....and informative....Thank you.

[Merc]

Very helpful.....and informative....Thank you.

Let us know how it performs with your antenna.

[pmclaine]

Let us know how it performs with your antenna.

It may be a bit before I get the second radio with the updated guts....unsure how I will convince Mrs S-19 stringing wires out the window is a good idea.

My goal is one oldies station....fingers crossed.

[Merc]

It may be a bit before I get the second radio with the updated guts....unsure how I will convince Mrs S-19 stringing wires out the window is a good idea.

My goal is one oldies station....fingers crossed.

If all you’re going to listen to are AM-FM radio stations, a 31 inch antenna should work.

[pmclaine]

If all you?re going to listen to are AM-FM radio stations, a 31 inch antenna should work.

I will try a loop antenna at first to see how it goes.....

[fjruple]

Merc-- Thanks for the information on the SS American Victory. Just a point of order, the SS American Victory is not a liberty ship it is a Victory class ship, the liberty ship was a smaller, earlier class. I have always marveled at the production rates of war material including these classes of ships in WWII.

[Merc]

Merc-- Thanks for the information on the SS American Victory. Just a point of order, the SS American Victory is not a liberty ship it is a Victory class ship, the liberty ship was a smaller, earlier class. I have always marveled at the production rates of war material including these classes of ships in WWII.

I stand corrected. You’d think I’d have known, being an old Navy man.

Ramping up the various industries to meet the challenges of WW2 was astonishing. I often wonder if we could do it again today.

[fjruple]

I stand corrected. You’d think I’d have known, being an old Navy man.

Ramping up the various industries to meet the challenges of WW2 was astonishing. I often wonder if we could do it again today.

Yea -- Me too!!