[Hallicrafters] SX-15 Magic-Eye Tuner

[W4AWM at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/2004 1:19:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
iluznst at yahoo.com writes:

> Here are my conclusions about the possibility of the
> SX-15 having the magic-eye tuner... Taking into
> account W4AWM's comments last month compared with my
> own SX-15, reviewing Chuck's book &LA5KI's
> Hallicrafter site (which shows internal pictures of
> the models that DID come with magic-eye tuners), I'm
> about 98% positive that they did not come from the
> factory that way.
> 
Hi Buzz,

My SX-15(ME) has the same magic eye escutheon as shown on the SX-10 on 
LA5KI's page which you referenced. It has the same mounting screws too, which makes 
the case of an OEM installation on some SX-15s more than valid in my opinion, 
also. 

 It turns out that I have a pair of SX-15s, one with the eye and the other 
without. The wiers thing is that I bought the plain jane '15 on a whim at a 
local hamfest and when I got it home, I discovered that I already had one and 
thought someone had made a really neat modification.  As I mentioned before, this 
was, i thought, a mod, since there was a slight difference in the distance 
from the dial between the eye and bandspread escutheons.  I was going to sell the 
SX-15(ME) since I thought it had beed modded and I only want unblemished recei
vers in my collection. Boy, am I ever glad that I never got around to it!

Now the question is, how do we find out if this is really a fact or possibly 
Hallicrafters or someone else came out with a DIY mod kit?  Possibly someone 
out there knows an old Hallicrafters engineer who may know the answer.  I have 
been through all the old catalogs I have and everything pictured is a plane 
jane and there is no reference to an eye kit being available. A second question 
is that if Hallicrafters did turn out some SX-15s with an eye, how many did 
they produce and why didn't they advertise them? Wierd!

I have to reference this to the SX-71s that had white dial faces instead of 
the original black one. I only have one ad showing a white face model and am 
fortunate enough to have both examples.

Thanks for the time you spent researching this situation and I know you will 
keep us posted if anything turns up.
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73,

John, W4AWM


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