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John Kusching, United States of America (USA) - Radio collection

Below you find a part of the radio collection John Kusching - including other related items. I became interested in collecting and restoring tube radios in 2006 with the purchase of a small AA5 radio from an antique shop, wondering if I could get this old radio working again. In a few weeks I had replaced the capacitors and had the radio working. At that point I became very interested in tube radio's. I found an RCA 6-RF-9 radio in an antique store, which I paid $20.00 for. The radio was held together with string, the cabinet basically in pieces. This was my first wooden radio and was the first radio I refinished. It was also my first AM/FM radio. At the beginning I started purchasing any radio that had tubes, but after 6 months I started refining my tastes. Although my interests in various radio's has changed over the years, I lean toward early wooden radio's from the 1920's to the 1950's. Getting a radio that has been sitting in a barn for 50 years and then bringing that radio back to life is very interesting to me. I still remember getting an old RCA Radiola 18 which was in bad shape. It was my first TRF and I still remember the thrill of hearing it play for the first time after I had restored it, wondering when the last time this radio had played. I have posted pictures and details of my many restorations over at the Antique Radio Forum (ARF) and posts over at ARF motivated me to join the Radio Museum. I actually enjoy the restoration part of the hobby the most. Many of the radio's I have restored I give to relatives and friends.

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Part of the radio collection of John Kusching. These pictures have been uploaded to the corresponding models by John Kusching but this is not necessarily all of John Kusching's collection.

	USA:  GTC, General Transformer Corporati... 1935 ??: Porta-Power U General transformer Corp Porta Power Model U Front View #1		USA:  Boonton Radio Corp.; Boonton, NJ 1953 : Q Meter 260-A
	USA:  Stewart Warner Corp.; Chicago (IL) 1936 : R-145 series chassis Stewart Warner R-145 Front View		USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1929 : Radiola 21 RCA Radiola 21 Front View
	USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1929 : Radiola 44 AC RCA Radiola 44 Front View		USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1928 : Radiola 60 table Radiola 60 Front View
	USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1924 : Radiola III (3) AR-805 Type RI (ri) RCA Radiola III Top View		USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1927 : Radiola Loudspeaker 100-A RCA Radiola 100A Front View
	USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1923 : Radiola VII (7) AR905 RCA Radiola VII - has extra switch mounted on upper right of front panel th...		USA:  Radio Shack (Tandy, Realistic, Mic... 1975–80 : Realistic DX-160 Cat.-No. 20-152 Realistic DX-160 Front View
	USA:  Sonora Radio & Telev. Corp.; Chica... 1948 ?: RET Sonora RET Front View		USA:  Zenith Radio Corp.; Chicago, IL 1974 ?: RF88Y Five Band AC-Battery Portable Radio
	USA:  Heathkit (Brand), Heath Co.; Bento... 1965 ??: RF Signal Generator IG-102 Heathkit IG-102 Front View		USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1960 ??: RJD12Y (white) RCA RJD12Y Front View
	USA:  Precision Apparatus Co. (Pacotroni... 1940 : Signal Generator E-200-C 6SJ7		USA:  EICO (Electronic Instrument Co.Inc... 1956 : Signal Generator 324 Eico 324 Front View
	USA:  Heathkit (Brand), Heath Co.; Bento... 1962 : Signal Tracer IT-12 Heathkit IT-12 Front View		USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1961 : Silvertone 2036 Ch= 528.53760 Order=57G 2036 Silvertone 2036 Front View
	USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1936/37 : Silvertone 4465 Order= 57D 4465 Ch= 100.151 Silvertone 4465 Front View		USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1936 : Silvertone 4569 Sears Silvertone 4569 Front View
	USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1937/38 : Silvertone 4664 Ch= 101.480 Order= 57F 4664 Silvertone 4664 front view		USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1938/39 : Silvertone 6048 Ch= 101.524-1
	USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1938/39 : Silvertone 6049 Ch= 101.524-1		USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1936 : Silvertone 7172 Silvertone 7172 Front View #1
	USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1941 : Silvertone 7325 Ch= 126.226 Export Sears Silvertone 7325 Front View #1		USA:  Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL) 1949 ??: Silvertone Powr Shiftr 6686 (A) Ch= 139.151 Silvertone 6686 Front View #1
	USA:  Sparks-Withington Co., (Sparton); ... 1926 : Sparton 5-15 Sparton 5-15 Front View		USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1940 : Station Allocator 171 RCA 171 Front View #1
	USA:  Fisher Radio; New York (NY) 1980 ??: Studio Standard Integrated Stereo Amplifier CA-800		USA:  Fisher Radio; New York (NY) 1987 ??: STV-870 Fisher STV-870 Front View Cover Removed
	USA:  General Electric Co. (GE); Bridgep... 1992 ?: Superadio 7-2887A General Electric Superadio III Front View		USA:  Grebe, A.H. & Co.; Richmond Hill (... 1924 : Synchrophase MU1 without chain table Grebe MU-1 Front View
	USA:  Thorola, Winkler-Reichmann Co.; Ch... 1923 ?: Thorola No. 4		USA:  Thorola, Winkler-Reichmann Co.; Ch... 1923 ?: Thorola 321 Audio Transformer Thorola 321 Audio transformer Front View #1
	USA:  Zenith Radio Corp.; Chicago, IL 1941/42 : Trans Oceanic 7G605 (Bomber) Shortwave Portable Radio Ch= 7B04 Zenith 7G605 Front View with cover open		USA:  Zenith Radio Corp.; Chicago, IL 1958 : Trans-Oceanic (TransOceanic) A600 Ch= 6A41 brown leather Zenith A600 Front Open View
	USA:  Zenith Radio Corp.; Chicago, IL 1954/55 : Trans-Oceanic (TransOceanic) L600 Ch= 6L40 black Zenith L600 Front View		USA:  Philco, Philadelphia Stg. Batt. Co... 1958–62 : Trans-World Portable T-9 Code 124 Philco T9 Front View
	USA:  Western Auto Supply Co. (Truetone)... 1943 ?: Truetone D-911B Truetone D-911B Front View		USA:  Western Auto Supply Co. (Truetone)... 1935–39 : Truetone D-711 Supreme Dial Type 2 Truetone D-711 Front View
	USA:  Western Auto Supply Co. (Truetone)... 1937 : Truetone D-727 Ch= 175-E Truetone D-727 Front View #1		USA:  Jefferson Electric Mfg. Co.; Chica... 1927 : Tube Rejuvenator Jefferson Tube Rejuvenator Front View #1
	USA:  EICO (Electronic Instrument Co.Inc... 1958 ??: TV-FM Sweep Generator and Marker 368 Eico 368 Front View		USA:  EICO (Electronic Instrument Co.Inc... 1965 ?: TV-FM Sweep /Marker Generator 369 USA Eico 369 Front View #1
	USA:  Phenix Radio Corp.; New York 1924 : Ultradyne L1 Lacault (Phenix) L-1 Front View		USA:  Phenix Radio Corp.; New York 1924 : Ultraformer Type "A" and "B" Ultraformer Type "A" View #1
	USA:  Sterling Manuf. Co.; Cleveland, Ohio 1927 : Vacuum Tube Reactivator R-403 Sterling R-403 Front View #3		USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1922 : Westinghouse Aeriola AC RCA Westinghouse Aeriola AC Top Open
	USA:  RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New Yor... 1923 : Westinghouse Aeriola Sr (RF) molded panel Westinghouse Aeriola Sr open view		USA:  Fisher Radio; New York (NY) 1962 ?: Wide-Band Multiplex Receiver 800-B Fisher 800B Front View with Fisher Cabinet

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Our member John Kusching opened his/her collection of radios and other related items on 24.Nov.2010.
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