[ARC5] Way OT -- SX-28

[Hubert Miller]

I wonder if the deciding factor was that Hammarlund, altho the better product,
used a separate power supply. It looks to me like the Army used the Hammarlund
product almost exclusively. The FBIS and FCC also used Hammarlund, but it seems
to be a lesser degree. It would be harder to have a wall of Hammarlunds with their
external supplies too. I once asked Jim Barrows, W7BCQ SK, why the one or the 
other choice at the FBIS. He said he really didn't know. 
You may remember some time back I posted to the Milsurplus group the photo of
the Hallicrafters SSR-202 system, which incorporated a McLaughlin Sideband Selector
together with an SX-28 in a large metal desk. This system was actually "secret" during
WW2, but who knows why. The McLaughlin device was about a 4 inch tall panel that
sat under the SX-28. I believe a very few of the McLaughlin things survived but zero 
of the metal desk assembly, I suppose because they were heavy and unwieldy and 
didn't much appeal to surplus dealers or the surplus buyers. I wonder if I have the
only SSR-202 manual around. This info should really be in that compilation book on
communications receivers. I told Bob Nickels that I didn't expect there would ever 
be another edition of this book, and on taking my first look at it, I saw there were
about 6 receivers I could think of that didn't appear in it. My idea is we "crowdsource"
our own update pages, sized to be 3-hole punched and put in a binder as an 
addendum.
-Hue Miller