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

[ralph]

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From: "Bill Krause" <bkrause at sos.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:20 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Re:The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".


> 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.
> >
> >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
> >
> >DX begins at the noise floor!
> >Merced, Central California
> >37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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