FW: [Hallicrafters] History

[Dave Merrill]

At the last hamfest I picked up the March, 1970 issue of 73 titled
'TM-73 Radio Surplus a la 73'.

Despite the title, there is only one real mil-surplus article -
'Turning the AN/GRC-9 into a Novice rig' - which consists mostly of
making an AC power supply and some operating hints.

But it also has a 45 page advertising section of surplus dealers.  By
1970 'surplus' encompassed the traditional mil-surplus offerings,
commercial  2-way FM gear and industrial surplus.

A number of the outlets that were discussed here have ads in this issue.
It's also surprising how many of them are still around today in one
form or another.

It's also interesting that the WW II gear was pretty cheap while the
HP test equipment went for quite a bit.  Today the HP stuff is
worthless and the
WW II equipment has taken off.  Who would have predicted that reversal
36 years ago?

So I scanned the advertising section and made a PDF out of it. It's
almost 12MB in size. It was done at 200 dpi so the image can be
enlarged sufficiently to read some of the smaller type.  Sorry, no OCR
- that would have made it much bigger - so unfortunately you can't
search for text.

Here's the link:

http://www7.spread-it.com/dl.php?id=b877e7ba42cc51da7ef255e248516168482c7eba

Hope you all enjoy the read.

/dave
N9ZC