[Hallicrafters] S-8 question

[Rich Oliver]

I remember when Owen, W5LFL first got on 2M from the Space Shuttle.  The 
plan was to listen for him on odd minutes (or maybe it was even - I 
don't really remember) and transmit on the other.  I was in there 
swinging with everybody else, but at one point I accidentally began 
transmitting when I should have been listening.  I figured it out pretty 
quickly and just said "OOPS - Sorry" and got off.  I thought that said 
it all, but one of the fellows felt obliged to take up the rest of that 
minute chastising me and explaining my blunder.

I don't recall who that ham was but I have to suspect that he is alive 
and well and active on the Hallicrafters list.

In an attempt to move the conversation back to radios, let me pose a 
nagging question about my oldest Halli-rig, an S-8.  Did Hallicrafters 
have anything more to do with this than marketing?  It is usually 
suggested that the S-8 was built by Howard or RCA, and it does have the 
look of an RCA radio to me.  It is very similar to the Super-7 and a 
number of other all-American rigs built around the same time (c. 1935) 
and marketed by Montgomery Ward and many others.  What's with that?

Cheers, Rich