[Hallicrafters] S 38 E radio set

Thu Aug 29 23:29:23 EDT 2002

Bill, 	

	First, you live in a modified bunker; mean guard dogs wearing gas masks and
those flasks around their necks are not Brandy like thos old Saint Bernard's
that rescued snow stranded skiers in Colorado! Additionally you have a scent
sensitive land mine under your 'welcome mat'! If the intruder smells like
trouble, such as somebody trying to collect back child support, he/she is soon
ground meal for your Friday evening poker group snack. Those stucco walls?
Enough sensors hidden within them to pick up a Fly farting at two hundred yards
through pea soup fog and air pollution from Cuban cigars thick enough to choke a
smoke detector to battery death! 	

What you need for an antenna, William, is a direct patch cord to Cheyenne
Mountain . Your museum needs a NORAD hot line, complete with egg scrambler and
red as a beet faced embarrased politician colored telephone. Failing this,
depending onw what it is that you wish to hear on the S-38e. Keeping in mind, it
was an entry level receiver ans was fun, but not especially good at hearing
well. 	

You can do just fine with an indoor antenna, such as a Slinky stretched across a
room ceiling or a Copper end fed long wire out the window to a Palm tree. There
are directional antennas, such as a wire loop that ou could buy, or quite easily
build, that let you tune the signal with some measure of unwanted stations being
nulled out on the sides.	

Trutfully William, it depends fof what you hope, or expect, to hear with the
S-38e. If it is general SW stations and some long distance MW stations at night,
a simple antenna will suffice. However, if you want to hear the really good
stuff, and I suspect a military dude like you does, then you need a better
receiver and a good outside antenna.	

I do not know if your location will permit it or not, but IAC makes an excellent
Flag Pole vertical about 20 feet high with American Flag flying. Very rugged,
totally innocent in appearance, and if you were licensed, would handle a KW all
day long and not break a sweat. Good coverage for ten, fifteen, twenty meters as
is, and twelve, seventeen and six with a tuner. Not cheap, but very well
engineered and constructed, FL based by Dave Landis, good support and great
performance.	

Decide what it is that you wish to hear, and then we will go antenna shopping. 	

Duane W8DBF	

P.S. I get out on work release tomorrow night, so might make the Net for the
weekend.  

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From: William L Howard <wlhoward at gte.net>
To: Hallicrafters list <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: msmart1 at pacbell.net
Subject: [Hallicrafters] S 38 E radio set
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:28 PM

I own a S-38E in good working condition. What Antenna should I use? Will
a long wire work? Should I use ladder wire with a dipole? I live in an
apartment with thick stucco walls. I need to come up with a simple
exterior antenna that will work well. I presently have a ground plane CB
antenna with a grounding rod. I have a home made impedance matcher that
I've used before for short wave. I've tried to use the ground plane
antenna with poor results.
Mike Martin <msmart1 at pacbell.net>

I got an S 38 E set in 1955 and used it at Gettysberg College in the
brick dorm, used it at home in New Jersey(wood frame house) and in a BOQ
in Germany and in a hotel in Orleans France and used the "as issued"
wire antenna which was about 15 feet long. From Pennsylvania, I picked
up Germany and South America.

Bill Howard

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