You may have a tube grid picking up the broadcast AM signal in the IF's or detector. In that spectrum of Longwave there you are at the middle and upper end of some of the european Longwave programs, but above 200 KHz there is little but navigation beacons, and those are few and far between.
As for why distortion in the MW band, alignment comes to mind, faulty switch, dirty switch, corrosion or dirt on a tube pin on just about any tube prior to the first audio stage, or a bad connection in the RF section of the MW bandswitch.
:I am fixing my Grundig 1088 I have a problem. The FM works fine. The MW 510 to 1600 KHZ works but there is a very faint fuzz. The LW has AM stations as well but they are louder and clearer.. WHich is supposed to be AM on this Radio I think it's MW. Why would I be getting AM stations on LW as it says the range is 150 to 350 KHZ. Could it be a tube?? I just recapped. Thanx BHedberg21@hotmail.com
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:Hi,
:If you are close to an AM transmitter, there will be bleedover into LongWave. Midwave is the typical AM band.
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:You may have a tube grid picking up the broadcast AM signal in the IF's or detector. In that spectrum of Longwave there you are at the middle and upper end of some of the european Longwave programs, but above 200 KHz there is little but navigation beacons, and those are few and far between.
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:As for why distortion in the MW band, alignment comes to mind, faulty switch, dirty switch, corrosion or dirt on a tube pin on just about any tube prior to the first audio stage, or a bad connection in the RF section of the MW bandswitch.
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::I am fixing my Grundig 1088 I have a problem. The FM works fine. The MW 510 to 1600 KHZ works but there is a very faint fuzz. The LW has AM stations as well but they are louder and clearer.. WHich is supposed to be AM on this Radio I think it's MW. Why would I be getting AM stations on LW as it says the range is 150 to 350 KHZ. Could it be a tube?? I just recapped. Thanx BHedberg21@hotmail.com
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You might have one beacon that you can pick up, but other than for attempting extraordinary DXing, LW will be a bust in your neck of the woods.
:The Sctatching went away when I pulled 1 long strand of Steel wool out of the switches???..Never would I use steel wool on a radio must have been from who ever had it before me... We don't have any stations in the 145 to 300Khz range anyway in Vancouver, so I guess I shouldn't worry about the LW??
:Brian
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::Hi,
::If you are close to an AM transmitter, there will be bleedover into LongWave. Midwave is the typical AM band.
::
::You may have a tube grid picking up the broadcast AM signal in the IF's or detector. In that spectrum of Longwave there you are at the middle and upper end of some of the european Longwave programs, but above 200 KHz there is little but navigation beacons, and those are few and far between.
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::As for why distortion in the MW band, alignment comes to mind, faulty switch, dirty switch, corrosion or dirt on a tube pin on just about any tube prior to the first audio stage, or a bad connection in the RF section of the MW bandswitch.
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:::I am fixing my Grundig 1088 I have a problem. The FM works fine. The MW 510 to 1600 KHZ works but there is a very faint fuzz. The LW has AM stations as well but they are louder and clearer.. WHich is supposed to be AM on this Radio I think it's MW. Why would I be getting AM stations on LW as it says the range is 150 to 350 KHZ. Could it be a tube?? I just recapped. Thanx BHedberg21@hotmail.com
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