[Boatanchors] Hammarlund HQ-129X front panels

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "Roger Shultz" <nj2r at verizon.net>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Hammarlund HQ-129X front panels


> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Roger Shultz 
> <nj2r at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Someone was making reproduction HQ-129X front panels and 
>> selling them on
>> eBay in the last year. Does anyone know who that was and 
>> how I might contact
>> him?
>>
>
> Thank would be Ron Hankins, KK4PK. I don't have his most 
> recent email
> info at hand, but if you search the archives you should 
> find it easily
> as this subject came up not too many months back. Or he 
> may have it
> posted on QRZ.
>
> I have one of Ron's panels and it is first rate.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4

     Is there any way to tell a reproduction from an 
original? I ask because my 129 is darker in color than is 
indicated by catalogue illustrations. The paint on the 
cabinet and escutchion matches so I think that is original. 
Does anyone know how much variation in finish there might 
have been in original panels over the production life of the 
radio. FWIW, mine has all-white stencilling.


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