[Hallicrafters] Opinions on the SX-110

[Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL]

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

>Al, 	
>	
>Where was the Novice band then?	
>  
>
I'm not Al, but as I recall it was 7.050 to 7.100.  Geez, I can even 
remember when 40 meters was a CW only band!!  Thirty meters, today, is 
very much like the ancient 40 meter band...without the short wave 
broadcast, thank goodness.

Glen has it pegged very accurately as I recall.  My first receiver was a 
Hallicrafters S-19R and it was used primarily for listening to a very 
small number of short wave broadcast stations:  HCJB, VOA, RFE, R. 
Australia and of course the BBC.  When I got my license in 1957 I used 
an S-53A and a DX-100 but quickly determined that the S-53A, while cute, 
just wasn't cutting the mustard.  I then spent all of my allowance and 
everything that I earned working as a grocery delivery boy to buy a 
sequence of receivers that were, by modern standards, microphonic, 
unstable, unselective and not particularly sensitive.  But boy, did I 
have fun.  Then I discovered girls and my money found other uses.  Some 
of them were also microphonic, unstable, insensitive and obviously 
unselective!

73,

-- 

Ken K4XL
k4xl at arrl.net

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