[Boatanchors] Hammarlund Pro 310 Rcvr on eBay

[Geoff]

Its been awhile since I looked at a manual but I thought it was double and 
triple conversion.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>; "Boatanchors" 
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Hammarlund Pro 310 Rcvr on eBay


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