Tube shielding - filament power and voltage reference effect on circuit operation?

Look at the note.

Voltages referenced the negative filament pin.

Note the screen is tied to the negative filament pin.

Reversing pins 1 and 7 should make it work.

Note the circuits and you can see the negative filament supply is grounded and the pin with the screen is grounded.

It could well be all we need do is reverse the filament battery.

** Pin 1 negative and grounded. Reverse the battery and swap pin 1 and 7.
 

The radio and the antenna matcher

 

This is the radio to be built.  Note the 20pf trimmer. If the antenna is long enough it could be all the trimming needed.

 The MFJ-16010 would be ideal for the job with a shorter antenna.

 

Note a quick search will find the manual with connecting and tuning instructions.

The hope is we build the unit as presented and it works fine. With our short antenna it probably will not. Adding a MFJ-16010 would be the next step before changing the circuit from the design.

Next thing to consider is the ground. Poor ground can cause you to lose half your signal. MFJ has an artificial ground to consider.

 

It worked so well for Dave. Why does it not work for me?

 This is what we would prefer. Need an acre to build it on!

 The actual antenna is a single wire. It looks like a capacitor  up to 1/4 wavelength.

So Daves antenna is above 1/4 wavelength. (inductive reactance)

Our antenna is very short and presents capacitive reactance.

 Assuming C2 is the antenna reactance we lose a lot of signal. The radio may be top notch but is deaf because it ears are not in tune. So, what to do?

 By adding L1 C1 we get our signal delivered to the radio input.

So 2  word answers - loading coil  - antenna tuner.

 The well loaded - tuned - neutralized input soars.

Next post the radio and possible additional circuit.