[Boatanchors] Hammarlund Pro 310 Rcvr on eBay

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "Boatanchors" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Hammarlund Pro 310 Rcvr on eBay


> Thought I wanted one of these years ago, fortunately I was 
> talked out
> of it. A very underwhelming receiver for what it was 
> supposed to be.
> Definitely the kind of thing for a collector vs. an 
> operator.
> Definitely worth something as a curiosity and low 
> production unit.
> Great quality on the few I've seen, but marginal execution 
> overall.
>
> You'd think they would've learned something from the SX-88 
> flop.
> Reminds me of those specialty cars they produced back in 
> the 70s-80s
> with a lot of cool trim packages. All show, little go.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4

     Its too bad we can't know more of the inside story of 
the Pro-310 and the SX-88, and maybe a couple of others. 
Both were intended to be world class receivers and missed 
the target almost completely.
     I found an on line handbook for the Pro-310 but can't 
get it to down load for some reason. I am under the 
impression that the Pro-310 is single conversion on the two 
lowest bands using a 50khz IF. If so it would have pretty 
bad image response in this range despite the -50db spec. 
Does anyone know if this is indeed the case.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com