E.H. Scott Pointer Dial Philharmonic 1937

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Comment by Norman S Braithwaite on June 7, 2011 at 11:07am

Looking at the front of the set, the right "eye" on the AM Philharmonics indicated degree of volume range expansion.

Comment by Leonid Soloviev on June 7, 2011 at 11:03am

OK, I am wrong again :) The schematics calls the second tuning eye "expander indicator"... So your set is totally AM...

Comment by Leonid Soloviev on June 7, 2011 at 11:01am

I do play my CD player via some vintage radios, sound good!

Your Scott has two tuning eyes - this is normally done in sets with both, AM and FM and normally these sets are dated somewere around 1941, like Philharmonic AM/FM.

But now I am looking at front page of Scott News Vol 2 from 1937 - and there E.H Scott presents "The new Scott Philharmonic" with two tuning indicators, and pointer dial, exactly like yours! So your set should be indeed from 1937. The schematics does not say "FM", they call this band "UHF". I guess, the term "FM" was not probaly widely used at that time...

Leonid

 

Comment by Kent Martin on June 7, 2011 at 9:25am

Leonid,

My set is AM for sure but there might have been some early FM stations available that you could pick up through AM tunings. I'm not sure. Check with Kent King. He might know. With my set you can turn this one knob all the way over and play a modern FM tuner through the Scott. I have done this and it's pretty cool.

Kent

Comment by Leonid Soloviev on June 7, 2011 at 9:10am

This is for sure museum level radio. Fantastic.

One question though: this is (an early) FM set. Was FM available in 1937?

Leonid

Comment by Kent Martin on June 6, 2011 at 5:39pm

J.M. I will be taking the receiver, base speaker, and amp out of the set later this month for service and will have to get back with you on the connections configuration for the speakers. I believe the tweeters connect to both the base speaker and the power amp and the base speaker connects to the power amp but will have to check at that time and let you know..

KM

Comment by Carlos Insa on June 6, 2011 at 5:34pm

This 1937 set do not need any type of external crossover.

Comment by Y2K Bruce on June 6, 2011 at 5:04pm

How do the 2 tweeters plug into the 15" speaker ?

 

My 15" pedestal speakers only have a single 2 pin plug-in and the tweeters I have each have a cord with 2 pins. I suspect perhaps I am missing some sort of crossover perhaps, similar to the setup used on the 4 piece Hi-Fi option.

Comment by Carlos Insa on June 6, 2011 at 4:29am

¡WOW!