[Hallicrafters] Opinions on the SX-110

[Dick Blaney]

You are right about 40 meters being an all CW band, and I believe it was 
also reserved for the old "Class A", ( the equilivent of our present 
Advanced license), amateur license.
Dick Blaney WB8MHE

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL" <kgrimm at adelphia.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Opinions on the SX-110


> 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,
>
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> Ken K4XL
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