PYE 39HC Shortwave Broadcast Receiver Video #1 - Checkout

I have a chance to work on one of my own radios and I thought my PYE 39HC would be a great choice. I've had this radio since 1974 and I did one overhaul a long time ago. I want to check out my previous work and get this great shortwave radio to perform like new.

[cubansplat]

What a treasure you have there, Jim. Thanks for showing her to us. Looking forward to more.

[vekk]

I am so happy to see this radio again Jim! My Dad had built a 39HC, no doubt Canadian built, into a wall cabinet in the rumpus room (1960s). So it was the first radio I puzzled over and got me interested in shortwave. And on to a lifelong hobby in ham radio and career in electronics. Some radio! I doubt I will ever have one but am now considering a rebuild of a Hallicrafters S-38, even older. The "AE" BCB loop aerial was clear insulated wire about 25t, 7 x 9 inches if I remember correctly. I may even still have it somewhere. Cheers and good luck.

[tectalabyss]

Hi Jim. Outstanding radio.
All my best.
Bobby

[Rebel]

Hey Jim, neat radio.  Never saw one quite like that here.  Closest I have is one of those old Zenith Transoceanic's.

[steelcitypb]

Jim,
Superb radio you got there Jim ...a very old British manufacturer that started life in instrument manufacturing, and maintenance, by a Mr W G Pye, for Cambridge University during 1898. It would have been sometime during the early-1920s when Pye started in radio manufacturing. By the late 1920s, Pye sold the radio division to an Irish entrepreneur, a Mr Charles O Stanley who ran Pye up to the time the company was sold to Philps of Holland in 1970. The Pye brand, as far as I'm aware, has been defunct for at least twenty-five years.
Phil.

[frankdaddyoh]

This radio had a back plate with the loop antenna on it....I have this radio in my collection....

[glasstronic]

Oh, she is a lovely beast. Simple in design with good selectivity.
I'd *love* to have her on me mantle.

[zorka]

German radios use PU for Pick up. Those two plug holes allow you to place in an outside source to use the speaker. But remember it is mono, so you need to do a little to it if you decide to hook in a stereo device into mono.

[glasstronic]

"mel" is mellow, "fid" is High fidelity.

[TheScottytr]

Melody, Fidelity? How does the sound change?