[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters

[Anthony W. DePrato]

>
>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
SNIP
AMEN
i have said this and proved it to myself over and over for 45+ years. i 
have owned or used about every sand state rig that has come along. they may 
give you a higher s meter reading then one of my old tube rigs but i can 
still copy. who cares what the s meter says. if you want a true reading put 
a r.f. amp meter in your line and look at the microvolt sig level coming in.

right now i have two ts 950sdx's two  ts 850sat's two ts 870dsp units' a 
mark v field hooked up. i use coax switches to switch all stations and 
antennas around. also connected are an sx 111 sx 101a sx 115 s40b hq110a 
sx100  sx 99 and a hq 140x. i even have a old s 38 that i can put in line. 
what i hear on the sand state i can hear and work on the tube gear. what i 
like about the tube gear is i can notch out and filter by hand where you 
can not with a lot of the new dsp units. i do mostly cw now and ill take 
any of my tube rigs over my 870 for filtering out qrm. and forget it if you 
turn on the noise blanker.
73 Tony