[Hallicrafters] SX-96 production

[Mike Everette]

Does anyone have any idea as to how many SX-96
receivers may have been produced?

This radio had a short production life.  The first of
the design lineage was the S-76 which was made from
late 1950 or early 1851 through 1954.  The successor
SX-100 was remarkably long-lived, catalogued from 1956
(or maybe late 1955?) through 1963.  But the SX-96 was
only catalogued from 1955 (or late 1954) through
(mid?) 1956.

All this time Halli was bound to be making a LOT of
other ham products, and doing a huge amount of
government work.

Could they have had time to produce many SX-96's?

Did Hallicrafters use "batch" production, i.e. making
one product run for a week or so, then another?  Seems
like they'd have had to.

Judging by the regularity with which they appear on
auction sites, SX-100's are dirt common.  The SX-96
was pretty infrequent until the last couple or three
months when a rash of them surfaced -- more than I
have seen over the last couple of years, in fact.

Any ideas?  My "SWAG-method" guess is, hmm... a
thousand or so?  Maybe two thousand? This was, after
all, an "upper mid priced" radio and they'd have sold
a lot more S-38/S-85/S-86/SX-99.... those radios were
featured in the Sears 'n Rareback catalogue.

Uh-oh... is this thread going to trigger a huge jump
in SX-96 prices....?  (It's a "nice" radio, but...)

73

Mike  WA4DLF


		
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