Atwater Kent Radio Model 10, 1924

Atwater Kent Radio Model 10, 1924
TRF circuit

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• Atwater
• Kent
• Radio
• Model
• 10
• 1924
• TRF
• technology

[dynadude56]

I notice the stations you pick up are from the Raliegh area. I am a fellow radio nut from the Chapel Hill area. I don't have any AK bread boards yet, but I do have several of their metal cased sets, a 318 console in very good original condition, and a very nice 725 table top tombstone.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks dynadude56

Yep, and taking pictures of the Raleigh Little Theatre gives it away. I think I have four or five AKs, they are really nice radios to have in a collection. They all work very good to.

[CassetteMaster]

Very nice and neat indeed! It works nicely and it is interesting to see and hear a 1920s radio operate in the present day (and playing modern radio). I wonder how that same radio would sound if played through a high-quality more modern speaker/amplifier.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks CassetteMaster

Thanks a good idea. Sometime soon I try and capture the audio output digitally. The audio should be good quality because these radios are RF amplifiers straight from the radio station.

[stratocat9999]

I've always wanted a Atwater-Kent breadboard set! This is the first time I've seen one operate, period! Thanks for sharing! I stopped collecting radios about 15 years ago and sold off all that i had (mostly Hallicrafters and Grunow sets, and one Spartan loaded with blue Arcturus tubes). I see there are more old sets posted on YouTube. It's great to see and hear sets i am never going to acquire. Don't need to, cause I can watch 'em here! Thanks!

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks stratocat9999

[RetroCaptain]

Good Day,

Very good job on that model 10!

I works well!

My grandfather had a model"TC? 8. It looked the same as yours. He never ran it .

The speakers back then were radically different from today's. I have one called a "Dictophone",..& they also worked with "Cannonball" headphones. I have also. Those radios fed the speaker right off the plate if I'm not mistaken.

It will be 100yrs old before long, & I bet STILL work!

Today's China radios will likely not, after 100yrs.

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[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. I really like the early radios. Every time I use one or work on one, it reminds me that this is the start of all electronic.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks! Yes I do have the wiring diagram. I downloaded it from nostalgiaairDOTorg.

[fernando140887]

Itt´s a very beatiful radio, congrulations! Do you have the schematic??