[Hallicrafters] go go go

Fri Sep 16 14:17:21 EDT 2005

Craig, 	

Regarding the Hallicrafters SX-28: "I figured the set was a really nice homebrew
job and ..." Now this is not as silly as it may seem at first. Back in the days
when Hams played with their pet Dinosaur's and built receivers, transmitters,
power supplies, surface to air missile launchers and pulsating strobe-like
handheld weapons to defend the Earth against the likes of Mothra, J. Edgar
Hoover and the Blob, some very talented Amateur Radio operators did build some
mighty nice looking gear!	

I distinctly recall being in the home of my high school classmate K8UZJ, Mark
Decker, (now SK) walking by the dining room table and noticing what appeared to
be quite an elaborate transmitter ready for the finishing touches to be added.
mark had built this. It looked very commercial, that is, it did not appear to be
a homebrew item. 	

So it is understandable how Craig could mistake a SX-28 for a homebrew project
published in QST over a 4.25 year period of time! Talk about step by step! Now
some of the guys home-brew projects did looked like a Dr. Tungsten electronic
nightmare where one's junkbox parts coalesced together to form an animated
entity that was more scary than your older sister at 6:00 AM when she staggered
out of her bedroom toward the bathroom with her hair full of those weird looking
colored coils and face covered in some kind of gross green goo that looked like
mud! But ugly or not, some of those contraptions worked and the builder had fun
doing it too. 	

It is truly amazing what one can accomplish when there is sufficient motivation,
despite a severe lack of available parts. Do any of you have childhood or
teenage years memories of neighborhood Hams who built some very professional
looking gear?	

Duane W8DBF	

searched in vain for th

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From: Craig Roberts <crgrbrts at verizon.net>
To: Ziegenbein, Randy <rziegenbein at volcanotherapeutics.com>; Hallicrafters
<Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] go go go
Date: Friday, September 16, 2005 12:32 PM

Although we prefer to publish learned presentations on esoteric and 
highly technical matters like paint colors and exchange personal 
greetings celebrating the warm camaraderie of the amateur radio 
community ("...your one brain cell is unlikely to be damaged..."), we 
occasionally entertain discussions of SX-28 receivers.

Although I don't own one, I'd like to simply because of its looks.  I've 
unknowingly wanted one ever since I was a kid and spotted a photo of a 
portion of its front panel accompanying a construction article on a 
Q-Multiplier or some such accessory in an early '60's ARRL Handbook.  
For years I wondered what radio sported that nifty face. Since the photo 
was in the Handbook I figured the set was a really nice homebrew job and 
searched in vain for the article describing it.  It wasn't until I got 
into restoring boatanchors a few years ago that I learned the true 
identity of the handsome beast.

Do you subscribe to Electric Radio?  The SX-28 has been the subject of  
several articles in that fine little magazine and back issues are 
available (though searchable index for them seems to be down at the moment).

Phil Nelson has a nice SX-28 restoration article posted on his website 
at http://antiqueradio.org/halli12.htm , too.

Have fun and 73,

Craig
W3CRR

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