[Hallicrafters] Another Sucker is born

[Roy Morgan]

At 03:36 PM 1/31/2006, Craig Roberts wrote:
>A couple of years ago I bought a Collins 32S-1 from a fellow in 
>California... put out a "clean 100 watts plus on all bands".   ...the 
>device's circuitry had been so scrambled by a previous owner and his 
>American Beauty 200 W soldering iron that, a) it was impossible for it to 
>operate at all, and, b) it was essentially irrepairable.


Craig,

I had better luck with an RBL receiver I bought at an antique radio club 
meet: The seller said he'd had it running and had heard a just couple of 
stations on it.

I found two or three tubes completely dead (6SK7's and the like).  Seems 
like it would take a VERY strong station to get through them.  Maybe he 
lived near WTOP or some thing!

Anyway, it did play with new tubes installed.

Roy



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