World Monitor Again

The GE World Monitor radio was mentioned before:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/09/seven-days-in-may-movie-version.html

Today I noticed an ad for an Admiral AM/FM/SW Transistor Portable:

never knew about this radio

And that got me thinking about the GE.  Where did I first see the World Monitor ?

the hard to see price was $199.98

source: https://archive.org/details/newsweek74julnewy/page/n245/mode/2up

I was scrap booking the space program in 1969 and would try to buy Newsweek, Time, Life - we also got National Geographic in the mail then.

Why didn't I just buy one ?:

Even now I'd have to think a while about spending over $1700

For one thing I DID have the Hallicrafters S-120.  And I was 13 years old in July 1969, no way I would ever see that much cash.

Just for the heck of it I tried searching on the Sams Photofact with the GE World Monitor: TSM-148  Bang: there it is on the wonderful WorldRadioHistory site !  Just dumb luck.

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Sams-Books/SAMS-Transistor-Radio-TSM-148.pdf

 

One thing that tickled me was this parts placement diagram:

As can be seen the GE people didn't worry about placing stuff on a rectangular grid, they didn't worry about it when resistors, capacitors or especially IF transformers were cocked at an angle :)

maybe I should dig it out of hiding and mess with it now that I have the repair info ?  

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm