[Hallicrafters] Re:Digi-crafters

[Roger Halstead (K8RI)]

You wouldn't want the display to have too many digits though.  Although some
of thiese old rigs were pretty stable after warm up you'd have a devil of a
time reading them during warm up.     <:-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com


> This is an interesting thread and one that is repeated in other forums.
> I collect and shoot military surplus firearms. On those forums there are
> those purist who don't believe in any alteration under any
> circumstances, there are those who replace original parts with other
> original parts and make minor alterations, and there are those who will
> alter these pieces of history to suit there fancy. When it comes to
> radios I confess that I enjoy some of these great pieces that have been
> recapped and even had a tube replaced with a modern solid state device
> to prevent heat build up. On the other hand I struggle with the issue of
> a digital display. I am a digital kind of guy and think how neat it
> would be to be able to tune to the exact frequency every time but I have
> a hard time escaping from the history and ambiance of these masterpieces
> and I do have plenty of digital radios. I like to sit in the darken
> radio room listening to the news from London with with the glow of one
> of these boat anchors casting a bit of light into the room. It is a
> different experience than scanning the bands on one of my modern
> receivers in the down stairs bed room.
>
>                                                     Bill Krause
>
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