[AMRadio] Looking for an old radio...

[Brett Gazdzinski]

Thanks for the reply.
I think I came up with something local,, Joe, N3IBX has something that will 
fit the bill nicely, and he is local.
Looking through my receiver book, boy it sure looks like Hallicrafters made 
a LOT of receivers!

Brett
N2DTS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Mayfield W9WRL" <wrl at gwltd.com>
To: "Brett Gazdzinski" <Brett.gazdzinski at verizon.net>; "Discussion of AM 
Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Looking for an old radio...


> Brett, I have several Hallicrafters receivers I don't know what to do 
> with, most are dupes to my collection. I'm not sure what all I have as 
> they are at my office and I'm not. I will be there from 10am to 6pm CDT 
> Monday if you want to call me. I think that for the most part they all 
> work to some level
>
> My work number is 309-762-6010
>
> Dave W9WRL
> Brett Gazdzinski wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I am looking for a gift for my nephew, who is 16 and into old things.
>> He likes working on old appliances, old motors, old electrical stuff, the 
>> older the better.
>>
>> He found an old table top radio, tube type, AM and FM, FM has two bands, 
>> the regular one and one around 40 mhz...
>> I got it working and he loves it, it took a bunch of caps and some tubes, 
>> and an alignment, and a LOT of cleaning up..
>>
>> Anyway, I thought I would look for some old tube type short wave receiver 
>> for a reasonable price, he might enjoy tuning ham and short wave.
>> I am looking for something that works, or almost works, something really 
>> old, something that looks old, a magic eye tube would be very cool.
>> Now this is a gift, so I do not want a rust bucket nasty looking thing.
>> I hope to spark some interest in radio with the gift.
>>
>> I used to have some old stuff but moved it along many years ago, but 
>> figure many hams have stuff around they never got to fixing, or do not 
>> use because its not great by todays standards.
>> I once found a few low end tube receivers at a local concrete place that 
>> were owned by the owners brother who passed away, and got them cheap as I 
>> told the guy I was going to clean them up and give them away, which is 
>> what I did.
>>
>> You guys might think about doing the ame thing with some older stuff you 
>> do not use, give it to some youngster to spark some interest in radio 
>> maybe....
>>
>> Anyway, let me know if you have anything that would work as a gift at 
>> nephew christmas type prices, plus I have a good junk box and can part 
>> trade for something also, besides cash.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brett
>> N2DTS
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