A long 70 foot wire should be used with the long wire antenna terminal on the rear of the set. A shorter, say 15 to 25 foot antenna will work for the short antenna terminal. Use which ever length is most practical for you. Run wire in a straight line. Never make turns or bends or have wire fold back on itself. Turns and bends cause inverse waves in the antenna, which cancel out signals and make the antenna inefficient. Suspend the wire outside. Fifteen feet is good. Higher is better, but not necessary. Too high and you attract lightening.

The variable coil you see all the way to the left of the schematic is your antenna coil. This coil has a big metal cup that moves over it or away from it, depending upon which way the antenna trimmer control knob is turned on the front of the radio. On my radio this is the right hand knob. You can use this to fine tune stations. You will have to adjust it as you tune over the dial, as it reacts differently for different portions of the dial. If you leave it in one position for one side of the dial, the other side of the dial may be completely dead. Play with this knob before ever suspecting radio frequency alignment issues within the radio--if you haven't alrady played around with it. Once you get acquainted with it, you should find that the radio performs quite well all over the dial.

The trimmer condensers on each of the tuning condensers can be tweaked (found in the big barn looking metal structure), but I don't recommend this if your radio functions fine. Your dial is most likely marked from 0 to 100 instead of in frequency markings. If you mess with the trimmers, you can throw things off since you don't really know where stations are supposed to fall. You could lose coverage at the high end of the dial if you tweak the trimmers in the wrong way. If you are having sensitivity issues, though, you can tune to a quiet station around 1400 KC. Align all of the trimmers for maximum loudness and selectivity (ability to differenciate between this and other stations).

Thomas