[Hallicrafters] FPM 200 Question

[Roy Morgan]

At 11:12 AM 8/17/2006, LeeCraner at aol.com wrote:
>... the last one that I saw sold was about a year
>ago, ...around $3K,

It may be that these things are pretty much unobtainium:

From:
http://www.qsl.net/n9oo/fpm200/intro.htm

"Since 1994 Jim Garland W8ZR has maintained an owners list
<http://www.miami.muohio.edu/president/personal/w8zr/vintage/tcvrs/FPM200_list.htm>
of known existing Hallicrafter FPM-200 transceivers. The list contains 30 
rigs, minus this one which at the time of this writing has not yet been 
registered. It has often been reported that the production quantities of 
this rig was not much more than thirty units. I guess we will never know 
the exact production numbers. It appears that the last three digits of the 
serial numbers does follow a sequencial order and based on W8ZR's list the 
lowest know to exist was 521 and the highest at 582 which provides us with 
62 radios ... "


Roy
Who luckily does not covet one.


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