[Hallicrafters] Is the SX-117 junque?

[Sandy W5TVW]

I owned an SX-117 some time ago.  Tried for an HT-44 to go sith it but
never found one "by itself"!  Out of all the sets from Hallicrafters I
tried, I considered the SX-117 a pretty worthy receiver.  The 50 khz
IF transformers in it seem superior to some of the other stuff they
built on the same scheme.  The "notch" filter works better than 
any other I have tried, and it is better than the one in my
Drake R4A.  The only thing "lacking" in it is better calibration
(i.e.: every 1 khz)  It was a better overall receiver than the later SX-122.
I am playing with now.

73,
Sandy W5TVW
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Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Is the SX-117 junque?


| 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.  
| 
| de ah6gi/4
| 
| 
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