[Boatanchors] The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".

Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:24:19 -0500

I don't know if they are still around, but a company called "Torrestronics"
made a digital readout back in the 80's for that kind of situation.  It was
universal, in that it had dip-switches inside that you set for your two IF's
and a toggle switch on the front that you switched manually when you when
switched from the high bands to the low ones.  I had one on a SP-600.  The
situation there is that it is double conversion on the high bands and single
on the lower ones.

It was an attractive unit, black with green leds except for the 100 hz.
digit which was red.  Or it might have been the other way around.  Anyway, I
can't remember whether it showed MHz. or not...I think not, and of course
that shouldn't be a problem.  It was very stable with hardly any flickering.
It'd be worth looking for.

73,
Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Atchley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:42 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".

> Howdy "Hallicrafter-ites",
> I've been doing some listening with the SX-71 that I recapped, rebuilt and
> repainted a couple years back.  During the last year the set has made a
> couple of brief excursions out of the Merced area but ALWAYS "comes home
to
> papa".  Kind of like a Homing Pigeon in that regard.  Hey!  "Homing BA"s,
> what a concept.
>
> Anyway, I swear (actually, I don't swear) that this thing just keeps
getting
> "Gooder 'N Gooder" with time, kind of like fine wine or a good wife.
> Either that or over time I just "forget" how well it plays.  (donning my
> fire suit) Now, if it just had a digital display so that I didn't need to
> use a portable "spotting receiver" to make certain of the DX station I'm
> tuned to.
>
> Checked out the "Freq Mite" Morse freq reader, but this thing is double
> conversion and has different LO offsets for the low and high bands.
>
> 73 from the "Beaconeers Lair".
> Phil, KO6BB
>
> DX begins at the noise floor!
> Merced, Central California
> 37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh
>
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