[Hallicrafters] SX-62 is playin' the oldies!

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 12:32 AM 6/16/2003 +0000, Phil Atchley wrote:
>Hi.
>This afternoon I tested the tubes in the SX-62 I've been overhaulin' and
>then I got brave and fired it up, watching and sniffing for smoke 8^)  There
>wasn't any so I briefly ran it through the bands.  I still need to put the
>new 'lytic capacitors in it but wanted to see how it plays.
>
>First it seemed like the Shortwave bands were way down but a check with the
>Yaesu VR-5000 showed that they were indeed way down.  Then I tuned in my
>favorite "Oldies" station, KABX 97.5 FM.  That old radio sounds pretty good,
>though the speaker I'm using is a small, funky Aiwa unit scrapped from a
>cheap surround sound receiver.  Push-Pull 6V6's sure sound a lot nicer than
>the typical Sand-state set <grin>.
>
>73 de Phil, KO6BB

Well the SX-62 was billed as All Wave High Fidelity.  Perhaps AM had better 
fidelity then it does now. FM? Yes it does sound rather good on that 
receiver when it's hooked up to a good 2 way speaker. Plenty of highs & 
bass on FM. I'd guess it's 50 to perhaps 10k in frequency response. Fm goes 
to 15k so maybe the receiver can too.

The SX-62 is in my dining room (near the kitchen) and is mainly used for 
classical music from two local FM's plus a really good oldies station 
(better than my local oldies outlet) thats 150 miles away fed from a pair 
of antennas 75' in the air. Those antennas feed the oldies station to the 
Mcintosh tuner in the living room also while the classical locals are fed 
from another antenna. It has a random wire on it for shortwave too.

An SX42 sits at my bed table for night time listening. In another room is 
my SX-99, SX-62 (R-274 version) plus an R390a. The R390a is my DX receiver 
of choice. The SX-99, HQ140X, & HQ180C plus some other receivers including 
an old RBO (Scott?)  sit unused on shelves.  They all work but haven't been 
turned on by me in several years. They were used at one time or another 
during my teens to middle 30's. Just never got rid of them & don't plan to.

Theres nothing wrong with keeping 10 to 15 (or more) old receivers around 
while you listen to mainly one or two of them...