[Boatanchors] Making a SX-110 Better?

[Bob Macklin]

This evening I was able to get 5MHz WWV on both receivers. I don't have a 
clue about the calibration of the S-Meters but the both were reading about 
S-9 (after I tuned off the crystal calibrator). They were both readable with 
quite a bit of QSB. But I do think the NC-109 was the better one.

There is a RTTY contest Saturday evening and I will try them on that on 40M. 
Just listening, not decoding.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Pollacks" <rinkies at att.net>
To: <WQ9E at btsnetworks.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Making a SX-110 Better?


>I don't think the SX62A was meant to be a real communications receiver, but
> is great for BC and SWL.
>
> Glen, your point about inexpensive receivers from the 40s and 50s being
> limited is well taken.  I think, though, that there is a great variation 
> in
> quality between units of somewhat similar price, and that a small jump in
> price brought a big leap in performance in some cases.  The original
> poster's comment, comparing the SX110 and NC109 is a good example.  The 
> 110
> sold for $160 and the 109 at $200.  In my opinion, the extra $40 bought a
> big performance increase.  The NC 188 sold for the same as the 110 but had
> no crystal filter, voltage regulator or product detector.  I've never had
> one of these, so I don't know how it would compare.
>
> My first receiver was an S38C, and I made lots of contacts with it, first
> with an AT1, then an Adventurer.  Then I got an R100, and thought I'd gone
> to heaven!  I have duplicates of all those rigs, and the R100 isn't much 
> of
> a receiver by the standards of better ones of the day, but to me, age 14, 
> I
> thought I had a 75A4!  It's all in what you compare it to, which I believe
> is Glen's point!
>
> Ah, nostalgia.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> WQ9E at btsnetworks.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Making a SX-110 Better?
>
> My starting novice receiver was a Hallicrafters SX-62A.  It had a crystal
> filter but no band spread tuning and the 40 meter novice band occupies 
> maybe
> an 1/8 inch of the big dial.  Backlash was plentiful!  Fine tuning was 
> done
> via leaving the lid open and carefully moving a finger towards the tuning
> cap to slightly change the frequency.  It had great audio and was a fine 
> SWL
> band cruiser but basically sucked as a communications receiver.  But I did
> make a number of fun contacts on 80 and 40 including Puerto Rico and 
> Canada.
>
> After 2 weeks a local ham took pity on the 14 year old novice and loaned 
> me
> his spare SX-101.  The first week with the new receiver I called CQ on 15
> and VQ9MI came back, the high point of my novice experience.
>
> Recreating my Johnson Valiant/SX-101 1975 novice station was what got me
> started with vintage gear in 1994.  I now have a couple SX-62 receivers 
> but
> they are not (and probably will never) be paired with a transmitter.   My
> nostalgia does have a limit :)
>
> Rodger WQ9E
>
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