[Hallicrafters] Is the SX-117 junque?

[kiyoinc at attglobal.net]

I've been watching the sales on eBay and have noticed that, uh, the
chrome-bandit look Hallicrafters go for low bucks compared to the older
cast-iron radios.

I've seen folk hawk their SX-117's as affordable SX-115's.  Is the 117,
122 and the other chrome-bandit radios inferior to the older models or is
this a style and fashion issue?

I have an SX-101A at my mom's place and never thought of it as a Great
radio.  It had that nice wide skirt IF passband, rock-onto frequency
bandswitch, and the "I'm somewhere on the upper end of 40" dial calibration.

It wasn't a bad radio, plenty good for casual operating.  

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