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04-03-2021, 02:57 PM
Here's is another I've restored a littlie while back. I love this one, don't see many of this model at least I haven't.


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04-03-2021, 05:34 PM
A really beautiful job ! Great receiver too, with BCB, and 3 shortwave bands, it'll provide hours of amusement surfing the airwaves.
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04-03-2021, 08:03 PM
Thanks Mike, some night I will crank it up and listen to it.
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04-03-2021, 09:54 PM
16 Tombstone is a beauty. I have one.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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04-05-2021, 12:08 AM
hello Fred,
Another beautiful restoration job .
Sincerely Rich
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