[Hallicrafters] Re: SX-96A production

[Bruce Wright]

Dear Fellow List Members...

As Roger has contributed:

     "The SX-96A looks very much like the SX-100 without the notch filter.
There is a photo here:

http://www.w9wze.org/Equipment/ListPhotos.php?Dir=S

73, Roger"

>From the frontal view picture that is among those referenced above, it seems 
that the SX-96A is without the cross-hatched panelling of the SX-100...I 
wonder, when the SX-96A was displayed within the various retailers of the 
day if those two covered holes next to the S-meter were not clues to 
perspective buyers that a newer model was just around the corner...It seems 
to me, a question about their existence had to be asked...Indeed, I had read 
somewhere that Bill Halligan strongly urged his marketing department to 
announce products even before the products were out of the prototype 
stage...Some circumstantial evidence of this are ads showing a hand-drawn 
image announcing the SX-101 as the "new heavy-weight champ" in the pages of 
QST...As to the SX-96 and the SX-100, the former was reviewed in May or June 
1955 QST and the SX-100 in Dec 1955...It would seem, therefore, that not too 
many SX-96A's were produced in such a relatively short time.

FWIW,

Bruce
WC5CW


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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:20:52 -0500
>From: Roger D Johnson <n1rj at adelphia.net>
>Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-96 production
>To: Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
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>Langston, Mike wrote:
> > I bought one last year from a friend in Alaska. He told me he bought it
> > new in 1954 along with an R-46A speaker. I agree with you that there
> > don't seem to have been many made, but there were enough made that they
> > also made the SX-96A which must be even rarer. Other than dial skirts on
> > the 96A, they may be identical. Anybody know?
> >
> > It's a decent receiver and probably very similar circuitry to the SX-100
> > except for the calibrator, notch, ant. trim features. The ease of tuning
> > ssb signals surprised me considering the lack of a product detector. I'm
> > going to add an outboard calibrator. Without one, you really have no
> > idea where you are frequency-wise when using the band spread. My biggest
> > gripe aesthetically is the size and cheesiness of the main tuning knobs.
> > The paint on the dial glasses tends to be flaking off of most units I
> > have seen and nobody is doing these yet (probably due to the lack of
> > demand).
> >
> > Mike KL7CD
> > Dallas-Ft. Worth
> >
>The SX-96A looks very much like the SX-100 without the notch filter.
>There is a photo here:
>
>http://www.w9wze.org/Equipment/ListPhotos.php?Dir=S
>
>73, Roger
>
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