[Hallicrafters] RE: Question About Hallicrafters HT-46/SX-146

[Vern Weiss]

Scott,

     I am running a Hallicrafters SX-146, HT-46 and matching R-51 speaker
that, believe it or not, I bought NEW at Trigger Electronics in River
Forest, IL in the mid 60s. I guess I was one of very few who had no problems
with Trigger.
     The HT-46/SX-146 "twins" were indeed Hallicrafters last venture into
matching XMTR/RCVR combos and were offered along with the SR-2000, SR-400A,
SR-42 and SR-46; which pretty much was the end of the assembly line at the
old Rolling Meadows facility.
     The transmitter works great but the SX-146 does tend to drift ever so
slowly (200-400 cycles per hour). (But it DID have a product detector which
my then primary receiver, a SX-25, did not). Aftermarket crystal filters can
be located on the used market and modified, as I have done, to work because
Hallicrafters only supplied the receiver with its mid-range 2.1 KC crystal.
Hallicrafters also left out the heterodyne crystals for the entire 10 meter
ham band and supplied only a single 500 kc section. HC6/U crystals can be
ordered even today for the needed fundemental. I am fortunate to have one of
the HA-16 VOX units installed on my  HT-46 however I don't operate any
phone. I suppose I could use it for semi-break in keying on CW but don't.
The SX-146 also had an optional crystal calibrator.
     I ended up adding a lot of this stuff years later because I had to work
one entire summer to  afford to buy the HT-46 and one enture year to buy the
SX-146. At $250 for the receiver and $300 for the transmitter (in mid-1960s
dollars!) the options had to be left off.
     The receiver audio is nothing like an NC-303 or SX-42 but it is
passable...certainly at a par with today's rice boxes. The flywheel tuning
is wonderful.
     All in all, it is a spiffy little rig and even 40 years later is
reliable and  something I am proud to own.

     Vern Weiss, W9STB
     All CW All vintage gear in the
     Wisconsin Northwoods

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Freeberg, Scott (STP)" <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:07 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] RE: Question About Hallicrafters HT-46/SX-146


Yesturday I was asking about the HT-44 and matching SX-117 receiver. Today
I'd like to ask about the HT-46 and matching SX-146 reeiver.  I'm thinking
they might have been the last tube transmitter/receiver made by
Hallicrafters. Is this so?

They are an interesting looking pair, almost looking more like a Novice
station than an SSB station.

Is anyone on the list currently running or has run that pair?  What do you
think of it?  Any FS?

73, Scott WA9WFA
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