[ARC5] Hallicrafters receivers.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 12 May 2013 at 6:45, Joe Connor wrote:


> >>     Hallicrafters sure was a funny company, in
> >> some ways they were right at the cutting edge and in other
> >> ways didn't quite make it.

Boy! You sure have that right! What I could never understand about that 
company was that most of their receivers I have used were so darned 
unstable, especially mechanically, yet their transmitters were for the most 
part quite adequately stable.

Like the SX-100 for instance. It looked good, had fairly decent specs, but 
was built so lightly that it was terrible, and if you bumped the table while 
listening to a station, it wobbled right off that station. This is NOT acceptable 
for a real communications receiver!

In fact, the most stable Halli receiver I have ever used was the SX-28, 
possibly because it was built to Signal Corps specs.

Ken W7EKB