[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters

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I grew up in the 60's.  My first taste of Ham radio was in 1958 using a
Zenith Transoceanic with the suction cup antenna.  It was fun listening to
the radio, AM then.

Later abt 1962 I got a Lafayette KT200 rcvr.  This was a mess.  A CB'er
bought it and tried to build it.  It was here kid you can have it, maybe you
can make it work.  Abt a month later it worked and I had my Novice license
KN3ZTJ. Along with a 6L6 transmitter and a knife switch that was my station.
When I was in high school I could afford to buy a Hallicrafters SX101mkIII.
It was beautiful, along with a R46B speaker. That is when I fell in love
with Hallicrafter products.  Maybe it was because I worked and earned the
money to buy the radio, or the big slide rule dial, I don't know. I really
didn't care if it worked , it was mine and I paid for it.  It was the center
piece in my small shack along with a xtal 6L6 xmiter.  When my Novice
expired I got my technician license and the SX101 was used for converters.
I couldn't afford the HA 6 or 2 but I made HB jobs with parts from Western
Electric.
I took and passed my general just before I went to college.  When I came
home for the summer my SX101 was gone.  Iwas almost heartbroken.  My dad had
sold it and bought me a SX117.  This was not a Hallicrafters, it's small, no
slide rule dial, fluorescent Orange pointers and a Gray case.  well, I found
a Globe Chief and got back on the air for the summer.

It's now 2003 and I have another pristine SX101mkIII back agn.  Something
inside me snapped and I seem to be going backwards.  I also have a Viking
Valiant to match.

I also own a Orion and Yaesu FT1000MP/mkV and believe me or not the SX101
hears everything the new rigs hear.  I think it's amazing that a 50+year old
radio still performs as well as the new ones.  Some guys don't believe me
but when they are here and listen to all three they are believers.

Ok. whats the moral??????  It seems in more then 50 years we still haven't
made that much headway in rcvr performance.  Alright, they have digital this
and that, computer control but the bottom line the old ones still work.

de Skip    K3CC



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