[Boatanchors] What! Making a SX-110 Better?

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 01:42 PM 3/10/2011, RJ Mattson wrote:
>The SX-110 was my novice receiver.
>It was the bottom of the sunspot cycle in 1962.
>Worked all states on 80/40/15m
>Got the KH6 on the dead 15m band plus KP4,KG4, PY4, LU6 etc.
>Guess I didn't know it was a bad used RX buy back then :-(

Bad receivers made good operators!!  Nothing like a 1939 Halli
S-19R with no RF stage, mechanically unstable, wide as a barndoor,
full of images, to require one to learn to cultivate "mental selectivity."

Being a kid with no money can be a blessing! :-)

This was great training that allowed one to hear the weak signal
thru a lot of crud even though it wasn't comfortable to do so.

Even though "later years and bigger pocketbooks" afford much
better receivers, one initially trained "on the cheap" is not
dependent on 200 Hz or narrower selectivity to keep a contact going.

My xyl, who was licensed later in life, can't understand why I
can tolerate noise, QRN or QRM.

So I'm grateful my parents didn't give me a Collins 75A4 when I
started... (sounds like heresy, doesn't it?) ;-)

Perry  w8au