1944 Philips PCR communications receiver rebuild.

[@russphilly]

i admire your patience and to detail

[@phantomrose1999]

Just magnificent! now it’s a piece of art

[@radiationking9875]

If youve still got this or just know how its done, how have you wired up your connections, for the aerial and earth? Im not in the radio hobby but i have a PCR 1 with the PSU however signal is weak. Best signal i got was by using the old aerial cable on the roof of my house

[@russphilly]

excellent! :)

[@vu3mes]

Where can I buy one of these, still miss my R1155.

[@mikeb1043]

Hi. They do come up on Ebay, sometimes at sensible prices. Most have been modified in some way. Not sure of your skills but this one took over a year on and off to complete. If it's just for show no problem. But to use it, in an urban area, you will need a good antenna and a band filter as the noise levels have increased a lot in recent years. The tuning control on this set is not as good as the R1155 so using it for SSB is difficult. Good luck - Mike

[@radiationking9875]

I found a site stating that the radio needs and antenna 10 to 30 meters long but they seem impracticable to me because itd surely be flopping about everywhere

[@mikeb1043]

Hi. Modern FM & DAB radios use frequencies in the VHF range (100 to 200MHz). At these frequencies an efficient antenna can be less than a metre long. Vintage HF radios use much lower frequencies, in the low MHz range. So an effective antenna needs to be around 10 to 30M. so 1MHz has a wavelength of 300m & 7MHz has a wavelength of 40M. This requires a length of wire usually hooked up to a tree or similar high point outside and an earth connection (which can be a length of wire laid along thre ground). If you Google 'HF simple wire antennas' you will see examples of typical setups. Regards - Mike

[@radiationking9875]

@@mikeb1043 thank you Mike , that explains it quite clearly, hopefully I can get the best out of it

[@radiationking9875]

@@mikeb1043 Well I've managed to get a sort of stable connection to Radio Europe in the Netherlands so its working. Crazy for a 79 year old radio

[@vu3mes]

Are you selling a PCR3 on ebay now?

[@mikeb1043]

No, sorry I don't think I want to part with mine yet! Good luck on finding one. Cheers Mike

[@vu3mes]

@@mikeb1043 ok there's one right now, completely recapped and serviced. Looks great, bidding for it. Hope I win it. Thanks.73