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

[Carl]

March 1958


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS" <frederic.clarke at navy.mil>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] What! Re: Making a SX-110 Better?


> 
> Wasn't the peak in 1958, the International Geophysical Year?  Six
> Meters was wild and crazy in 57-58.
> 
> Tom/W4OKW, then K1AST.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl [mailto:km1h at jeremy.mv.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:06 PM
> To: RJ Mattson; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] What! Re: Making a SX-110 Better?
> 
> It was not the bottom of Cycle 19 in 62, that took a few more years.
> 
> Carl
> KM1H
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RJ Mattson" <rjmattson at hvi.net>
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:42 PM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] What! Re: Making a SX-110 Better?
> 
> 
>> 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 :-(
>> Antenna: 80-10m 14AVS vertical.
>> Regards,
>> bob...w2ami x wn2ami 1962
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- > On 3/10/2011 11:26 AM, Bob Macklin
> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to make a SX-110 a better receiver.  I can hear more
> on 
>>>> my
>>>> NC-109 than I can on my SX-110.
>>>>
>>>> Is it worth messing width?
>>>>
>>>> I am able to hear some SWBC on it but it sucks on the ham bands.
>>>>
>>>> I have not done any critical sensitivity measurements.
>>>>
>>>> Bob Macklin
>>>> K5MYJ
>>>> Seattle, Wa.
>>>> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
>>>
>>
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