[Hallicrafters] SX-28 "Good in Her Day"

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Weirdest thing(s) I found were in old TV sets we were dissecting in
school. These sets were donated to the school because they
mysteriously stopped working in most cases.

One was full of dried macaroni (probably wasn't dry when some little
fingers squeezed it through the rear cooling slots), another was
filled with many aluminum knitting needles and crocheting hooks of all
sizes - including those honkers granny used to knit sweaters. How
anyone got these into the back of that set without getting
electrocuted is beyond me. More than a dozen in there, maybe two.

None of my old books have yielded anything more exciting than the
occasional hand-drawn schematic, a note, a picture or 4-leaf clover.
Some guys get all the luck...

~ Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ


On 2/1/06, GBrown <gkbrown at gwi.net> wrote:
> This wasn't in a receiver or a piece of equipment but a fellow ham gave me a
> picture of his old shack. Johnson Viking II and an HQ-129X. This was in a
> frame. I removed the picture to clean the frame and found his marriage
> license from 53 years ago. I contacted him and he was surprised as hell.
> Thought it was long gone. Naturally, I returned it to him, NO CHARGE.
> Regards,
> Gary...WZ1M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Freeberg, Scott (STP)" <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com>
> To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:54 AM
> Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] SX-28 "Good in Her Day"

> 30 years ago an OT gave me two sets of home bound QST's from the mid 30's.
> I'm sure he hadn't looked at them since 1935 either so he didn't remember
> that in the middle of each bound set there are 20 pages of 1930's nudie
> pictures.  The pictures have captions trying disguise the nudie part by
> discussing the technical photographic aspects of lighting, form, shape,
> etc... I figure he was hiding his nudie collection from his wife :->
>
> It makes for an interesting read.  First I'm browing through transmitters,
> receivers, 1930's operating news, then I browse through nudies, then back to