Older Reciever

[Jonas]

It looks like you found an interesting radio receiver. I'm not certain that it would qualify as an antique, or if it has value to a collector, but I would certainly get onto the internet and check it out.

Here are four criteria for a SHTF radio that I can recommend:
1. It can receive on multiple power sources - batteries, automobile cigarette plug, and commercial household power at the bare minimums. Solar and hand-crank are a plus.
2. It can receive commercial AM and FM stations (how else will we know what the government wants us to think), plus weather, plus HF, UHF, and VHF.
3. In the UHF-AM range it MUST have single-sideband capability. Most hams transmitting in phone (voice) mode will be transmitting in SSB mode.
4. It has a plug or jack for an outside antenna to be attached, in addition to the antenna that is built into the radio.

For me, the lack of any one of these capabilities render a radio not viable in a SHTF situation.