[Hallicrafters] What's in a name? An SX-71 by any other name wouldSound as Sweet..

[Roy Morgan]

At 07:56 AM 2/28/2006, amfone at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>How about "S" for SILLY. Maybe they just picked straws and that is how the 
>S and SX were 'born".. God good thing it wasn't an "F"..

The story is that at Hammarlund the project to meet the military order for 
a new receiver was dubbed Hellova Rush Order. Thus the HRO series of receivers.

Roy


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