[ARC5] Hallicrafters receivers.

[Jim Haynes]

On Mon, 13 May 2013, Joe Connor wrote:

> I just wonder if Hallicrafters made a mistake after the War of trying to be too many things to too many people. Look at where they strayed beyond making solid communications/ham receivers (and transmitters):
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> 1. Television sets;
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> 2. Cheap receivers, such as the S-38;
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> 3. Receivers for the wealthy but casual listener, such as the SX-62.
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> Perhaps this was the result of business necessity. I don't know.

They were also very big in military electronic countermeasures, radar
intercept and jamming and such.

Last year I stayed in a motel outside Chicago that was down the street
from a Northrop-Grumman facility.  I wondered why it was there, since it
was not near an airport.  Then someone told me that was where 
Hallicrafters moved to after they moved out of the city, and then they
had been bought by Northrop-Grumman.  Who are very big in military
electronic countermeasures.