[Boatanchors] S-38E knock-off

[Al Klase]

Hi Jerry,

You sound pretty sure it was an S-38E clone, at least in physical 
appearance, with a wooden cabinet.  I've checked the books here 
including "Radios by Hallicrafters" - Chuck Dachis and "The 
Hallicrafters Story" - Max De Henseler to no avail.

The wooden case made me think of the WR-1000 series 
(http://www.qsl.net/la5ki/big/wr1000.jpg), but they are S-120 based.

Who knows?
Al

On 2/2/2013 8:29 PM, Gerry Steffens wrote:
> I am attempting to identify and possibly find an S-38E knock-off from circa
> 1961 or thereabouts.
>
> This was the first then modern radio my buddy got.  We were both kids in
> junior high school or later.  I had progressed from a Detrola model 585
> table radio with one SW band of about 6 to 18 Mc. to a Hallicrafters S-38E.
> He had progressed from an old Delco floor model with two SW bands from Bcst
> to about 18 Mc. with a green tuning eye (I really envied him with that green
> eye) to the subject radio.  Later, we both moved on to a Knightkit R-100 in
> his case and a Knightkit R-100A in my case.
>
> He doesn't remember that first radio so I hope to refresh his memory with a
> picture or two  and possibly present him with one, if I can find one.
>
> The radio was identical in configuration (four controls and the switch panel
> above it with the same three switches).  The cabinet front, top and sides
> were all blond wood, not blond colored metal as the S-38EB.  It was a light
> blond finish (shellac, varnish or something) and the workmanship on the
> bottom and rear was not superb.  I think the rear and bottom were the same
> fibrous material as the S-38E back.  It did have one improvement over the
> Hallicrafters, it had a dial light on each end of the large dial.
>
> I am not certain if it was an AA5 AC/DC radio or not.  I have a vague
> remembrance that when we took it apart to touch up the rf alignment (dial
> calibration) that it had a transformer; but I will not sign that in blood.
> It also seems that the two dial lights came on nice and bright and stayed
> that way, not like the AC/DC S-38E.
>
> I have been through period Allied catalogs to no avail (I figured as much).
> I think it came from McGee with BA as a second guess.  I have no catalogs
> from McGee and the only BA catalog I have is from 1977, far too late.
>
> Just wondering if this might ring any bells with you list folks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerry
>
>   Radio Historian, collecting E.H. Scott,
> McMurdo Silver, Hallicrafters, National,
> Zenith Transoceanic, & any other interesting
> radios & classic Oldsmobiles
> Collection stands about 275 radios, 5 Olds.
>
>
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
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