For those who have helped me out so far, Doug, Butch, thank you for your input. I found where I had landed a capacitor on the wrong terminal of a coil involved in the SW. It made alot of difference when I corrected it. Now my BC sounds better and I'm getting noise where the stations should be on the SW. I have a couple of questions if you could help me a little more. When aligning the sw should you have a straight wire hooked up for an antenna, eventhough I have a 400 ohm dummy antenna in series from the signal generator? When aligning the bC should I have the wavemagnet hooked up eventhough I have a 'loosely coiled single turn' wire arount it hooked to the signal generator? How long should my straight line single wire sw antenna be?

Neal, if your signal generator is in the same room as your receiver, it might be OK. In other words, it's not particularly critical how you link it to your set, as long as you can hear it.

As far as picking up SW, your long-wire antenna can be any length, longer is better. 20' is quite good. 50' is great. 75' is great+. The antenna won't be resonant at SW frequencies, so the exact length isn't at all critical.
Doug

:For those who have helped me out so far, Doug, Butch, thank you for your input. I found where I had landed a capacitor on the wrong terminal of a coil involved in the SW. It made alot of difference when I corrected it. Now my BC sounds better and I'm getting noise where the stations should be on the SW. I have a couple of questions if you could help me a little more. When aligning the sw should you have a straight wire hooked up for an antenna, eventhough I have a 400 ohm dummy antenna in series from the signal generator? When aligning the bC should I have the wavemagnet hooked up eventhough I have a 'loosely coiled single turn' wire arount it hooked to the signal generator? How long should my straight line single wire sw antenna be?

Doug: Thanks again, My BC sounded great today! I'll realign my SW with the signal generator and the longwire hooked up. I'm learning here as we go. I know I've got a treasure here and I'm estatic about working on it. When I started on it, it had no speaker, missing tubes, no dial pointer, no wavemagnet,no phono/radio switch actuator, no knobs, crumbling wiring and so on. Now it's all coming together. I appreciate your help.
Neal, if your signal generator is in the same room as your receiver, it might be OK. In other words, it's not particularly critical how you link it to your set, as long as you can hear it.
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:As far as picking up SW, your long-wire antenna can be any length, longer is better. 20' is quite good. 50' is great. 75' is great+. The antenna won't be resonant at SW frequencies, so the exact length isn't at all critical.
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::For those who have helped me out so far, Doug, Butch, thank you for your input. I found where I had landed a capacitor on the wrong terminal of a coil involved in the SW. It made alot of difference when I corrected it. Now my BC sounds better and I'm getting noise where the stations should be on the SW. I have a couple of questions if you could help me a little more. When aligning the sw should you have a straight wire hooked up for an antenna, eventhough I have a 400 ohm dummy antenna in series from the signal generator? When aligning the bC should I have the wavemagnet hooked up eventhough I have a 'loosely coiled single turn' wire arount it hooked to the signal generator? How long should my straight line single wire sw antenna be?

Come on guys, help me out here, forgive me for my terminology. I meant longwire not straight line.
Neal
:For those who have helped me out so far, Doug, Butch, thank you for your input. I found where I had landed a capacitor on the wrong terminal of a coil involved in the SW. It made alot of difference when I corrected it. Now my BC sounds better and I'm getting noise where the stations should be on the SW. I have a couple of questions if you could help me a little more. When aligning the sw should you have a straight wire hooked up for an antenna, eventhough I have a 400 ohm dummy antenna in series from the signal generator? When aligning the bC should I have the wavemagnet hooked up eventhough I have a 'loosely coiled single turn' wire arount it hooked to the signal generator? How long should my straight line single wire sw antenna be?