[Hallicrafters] Re:The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".

[Bill Krause]

Phil,
       I also have a recapped SX-71 and like you I am absolutely 
astounded by it's performance. Soon I'll have a recapped SX-62. I can 
hardly wait. Some of these old boat anchors really are amazing, doing a 
lot better than the radio stations we use them to listen too. I have 
some neat modern receivers but that 71 is special and it seems like you 
don't need as much of an antenna with them as you do the modern digitals.

                                                 Bill Krause

Philip Atchley wrote:

>Howdy "Hallicrafter-ites",
>I've been doing some listening with the SX-71 that I recapped, rebuilt and
>repainted a couple years back.  During the last year the set has made a
>couple of brief excursions out of the Merced area but ALWAYS "comes home to
>papa".  Kind of like a Homing Pigeon in that regard.  Hey!  "Homing BA"s,
>what a concept.
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>Anyway, I swear (actually, I don't swear) that this thing just keeps getting
>"Gooder 'N Gooder" with time, kind of like fine wine or a good wife.
>Either that or over time I just "forget" how well it plays.  (donning my
>fire suit) Now, if it just had a digital display so that I didn't need to
>use a portable "spotting receiver" to make certain of the DX station I'm
>tuned to.
>
>Checked out the "Freq Mite" Morse freq reader, but this thing is double
>conversion and has different LO offsets for the low and high bands.
>
>73 from the "Beaconeers Lair".
>Phil, KO6BB
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>DX begins at the noise floor!
>Merced, Central California
>37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh
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