[Hallicrafters] Sorry, but I Just Need to Pass This On.

[Barry H]

Hi Duane & fellow Hallicraftoids ...

Well, as you tell it, doesn't sound like being acquired by Northrop counts as survival.  I noticed you didn't call it Northrop-Grumman .. even though the company added Grumman onto the name. Their web site lists a whole bunch of acquisitions, but looks like Hallicrafters didn't rate a mention in the history.

Nowadays, Hallicrafters survives in us collectively.  About 750 listings on epay over the last 30 days.  Google comes up with over 114,000 hits.  

Hmmmm... I just noticed that where it says Samsung on my cell phone, it's just silk-screened and could rub off quite easily.  You wouldn't happen to have some small Hallicrafters decals around there, Duane.

One of the listmembers reported recently that the building in Chicago is still vacant and the logo is still over the door.  Anybody out there somewhat nuts with lots of money?  I only qualify on the first part.

Barry


 

-- "Duane Fischer" <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
Yo Barry! Stagger out of that fog bro. Or is it your neighbor's wood smoke
again from burning those abandoned rental units? (LOL!)

Hallicrafters did survive, it is now
called Northrup. All of the military contracts was what Northrup bought
Hallicrafters for. Then threw away the rest, put their name on the military
gear and it continues to his day.	
	
Frankly put, Bill Sr. did not have a good man to take the company, he tried
it three times before from 1957 forward, the new man ran the company into
the ground, Bill was still on the Board, bought it back, put it back on top
and so forth. Finally he decided that it was simply time to retire, sold
the company, did not accept a position on the board, and enjoyed the next
twenty-six+ years until his passing in July
1992.	
	
Duane W8DBF	


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From: Barry H <barry_hauser at juno.com>
To: radio6146 at yahoo.com
Cc: k2wh at optonline.net; Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Sorry, but I Just Need to Pass This On.
Date: Saturday, December 10, 2005 9:09 PM

Nevermind the Internet, over the last 20 years or so, everyone and his kid
brother has become a QRP transceiver operator using repeaters -- yup --
from car phones to bag phones to tiny cell phones with built in SSTV and
now real time TV.  What are cell phones anyway -- radios. And they trade up
their "rigs" every year or two.  If Hallicrafters survived, they'd be in it
too.  No?  How about "Hello Moto!" -- as in Motorola (RAZR, etc.)

Ironically, the new age "radio" has gone back to the original (and
preserved in the UK) term -- wireless.

Gugliermo is saying now to everybody in the next world -- "Hey, what I tell
you, eh?  And when you quote me, that's 'Marconi', not macaroni, hey!"

Barry

-- Jim DiMauro <radio6146 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Let's see, the Internet is "mimicking radio."  Is it
now?  As I see it in your example, the transmission
medium to the end user is radio.  Wi-Fi and all that
is radio.  So radio continues to be the medium of
choice for even the newest technology concepts,
bringing entertainment and information to us and our
children, as radio has done for the past 90 years or
so.  So, is radio being "mimicked," or has radio been
reinvented and given a new lease on life?  There's a
lesson in there somewhere, I think.

Where do we go from here?  We die, and make way for
others with different dreams, as did those who have
gone before us.  It's a fun ride, I think.

Jim
W2BVM

--- Bill Gerhold <k2wh at optonline.net> wrote:

>> Folks, I think we have finally come full circle
> where the internet is
> concerned and has evolved into a full dimensional,
> full service medium and
> is now mimicking radio.  This generation of young
> children will now say I
> "Heard it on the Internet" instead of "I Heard it on
> the Radio".  Where do
> we go from here?  Maybe it just doesn't matter.
>
>  
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