Hello, I wanted to fix my radio as it didn't quite catch AM. I found an orange part with two little wires soldered to it. Does ANYBODY know what that is? I looked through Google and nothing. AI told me it could be an inductor or some coil.

 

Looks like an antenna coil, did you also find a ferrite rod?

 

It is an inductor, a coil, wire-winding. If has continuity, put it back as found.

 

When you solder the antenna coil back into the radio, the wire has insulation on it. (very thin layer of paint) You should scrape off the insulation or it will not solder well.

 

Looks like an antenna coil, did you also find a ferrite rod?

I think i did

 

It is an inductor, a coil, wire-winding. If has continuity, put it back as found.

Well one wire was like cut in the middle

 

When you solder the antenna coil back into the radio, the wire has insulation on it. (very thin layer of paint) You should scrape off the insulation or it will not solder well.

Thank you!

 

Show us photos of the radio, front, back, inside, and any circuit boards.

 

Well one wire was like cut in the middle

Thats "Litz' wire, be sure you reconnect all of the strands.

 

Show us photos of the radio, front, back, inside, and any circuit boards.

 

Older radios had capacitive tuning which operated in conjunction with a coil wound on a ferrite rod .

 

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AM Ferrite aerial coil
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Here are similar schematics and should be close enough to BC-R2011 radio. Parts ID are not the same. The AM coil is on pin-2 of IC2.

 

Thats "Litz' wire, be sure you reconnect all of the strands.

I can't see that it is Litz. I zoomed in all I could and don't see it.

Well one wire was like cut in the middle

Add some more wire on. A short piece will not cause trouble.

 

Here is another circuit from Peter Vis.

 

What I see is that the wire already appears to be tinned already on both ends, and that it already appears to be on some sort of ferrite core. and the picture of the radio does not appear to show where the coil was installed. We do not see a photo of the component sice of the circuit board.
Also, I see the access openings for the trimmer caps on the tuning capacitor, so it is obvious to me that the radio has a tuning cap.
Aside from that, I also see on the coil body the bob of glue that held it to something else. So I see that the item used to be an AM antenna coil on what used to be a small AM/FM pocket size radio.

 

It looks like the coil got disconnected from AM1 and AM2 solder joints.

 

My guess is that the radio was dropped and the coil glue connection was broken and so the coil was loose. So IF the TS is able to locate the locations that the coil was soldered to and IF the TS is able to solder the coil back to those connections AND verify that the radio functions properly before re-attaching the coil,then a repair is quite possible.
It may be that the ends of the coil wires are still in the solder coated segment, in which case the appearance will be more of a silver color than a copper color, and no scraping will be required.