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by Anonymous on December 5th, 2009
If possible, you should fire it up and hear what signals it receives.
But keep in mind that as more and more radio stations convert to digital broadcasts, "olde style" radios, such as the Farnsworths and Atwater-Kents, will not be able to adequately process and decode incoming digital signals.
Eventually, those antique radios will be totally useless, and will receive only static.
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by Joe_Kool on January 18th, 2010
Old radios will still pick up LW, MW and SW transmissions. With tube sets of that age you have to be careful as capacitors can dry out and the insulation of the power transformer can break down. If you have a set of that vintage that hasn't been used for years it's wise to start it on a variac (variable AC transformer) and wind it up slowly keeping an eye on the internal workings to make sure there's no problems.
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