[Hallicrafters] Receivers and such

[TC Dailey]

When I was a kid, I lived in KC.  Burstein-Applebee (B-A) was there, and my
friend Biff (his real name, and not at all like the cliche') and I would
ride the bus downtown, and go drool at the receivers there.  The S-38D was
my particular fancy, as I knew even then, that a Hammarlund Super Pro was
for rich guys... and I wasn't one a' dem.  My friend Kirk put it well:  The
Hallicrafters S-38D was immediately recognizable by the smallest boy, and
represented "The Height of Affordable Technology" in 1956, for a kid of 12
years.  Like my Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, I couldn't ever seem to save up the
money for one back then, but have one now... AND an S-38D.  It sits next to
it's Big Brother SX-62A.

Oh, and I laughed embarrassingly loud at Ken's (K4XL) description of that
which captured our imagination, AFTER radios.  That resulted in "The Look"
from the wife... HI HI HI

Tom - WAØEAJ - Denver