[Hallicrafters] RE:HT-18/S-53A Station

[Bill Marx]

Hello Horace,
Actually it wasn't unusual to listen for and work someone 25 kHz away as a novice. That carried over to our General license and many
would have their favorite frequencies and knew everyone that came on the air close to it. My Elmer( W2HSB-SK) loved 14052. I was the
new breed and bought a VF-1 for DXing. Even though he had modern gear (SX-115/HT-32) He stayed with 14052.

We didnt know they were broad, we used whatever we had. I remember when the Q-Multiplier was offered from Heath I thought it great.
For a few dollars we had as good a radio as anything in any magazine or catalogue. My rig at the time was a SX-99 and DX-35
transmitter until I moved up to the HT-9 transmitter with a HT-18 VFO and the SX-99 with Q-Multiplier. Only those in QST Pictures
actually had Collins 75A-4's.
Bill Marx W2CQ
(Licensed 1958)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Horace W. Hall" <hwhall at compuserve.com>
To: "Hallicrafter List" <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 1:31 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] RE:HT-18/S-53A Station


S-53a may not be much by comparison to more expensive & complex rcvrs, but
I see in the 50's era QSTs (in the Operating & YL & other sections that
often carried station pictures) there were a number of modest stations
illustrated with s-53 as the rcvr. One has to believe that these pictured
stations are not the only ones so equipped.

I suspect that you parked those broad rcvrs right over the transmit freq
and listened for any replies within their bandwidth (mental tuning) instead
of (with more selective radios) rocking the tuning up & down from your
freq. This would probably be especially true for crystal bound xmtrs.
--Wayne
  WB4OGM
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