[Hallicrafters] SX 88 Fantasies

[Bonddaleena at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/8/2006 9:11:38 PM Eastern  Standard Time, Ka9p at aol.com 
writes:
In keeping with this week's themes I was  tempted to propose a copyright 
infringement contest, but got diverted by  something remotely Halli-related.

About 35 years ago, at the ripe old age  of 15, I was standing at the Starved 
Rock hamfest, a hundred dollars in  hand, agonizing over whether to bring 
home 
a fellow's beat up SX88 with a  couple extra switches on the panel, or an RF 
deck with a pair of  4-400's.  I can see me standing there, in the hot sun 
and 
dust,  fiercely debating whether a chassis pulled out of an old Johnson Desk 
was 
a  better buy than that forlorn looking testimony to the Halligan name.  I 
can  
still smell the inside of the 88 as I tried to figure out if there was any  
suspicious odor that might give away the reason the grisley old guy was  
willing 
to part company with it.

1500 watts and three weeks later,  after the fire and smoke cleared, I 
realized that the 88 would have been the  better choice, and wondered all 
these years 
if life would have turned out  differently.......

Anyway a really wonderful friend just completed a  restoration of an SX88, 
and 
let me come over to be the first person to put  it on an antenna, completing 
the 35 year old fantasy.  This is the kind  of friend y'all should have.  The 
thrill was there.  The cw  selectivity was superb, the audio mellow and 
clean, 
sideband sounded sweet  despite the absence of a product detector, the S 
meter 
was just way cool,  and the way the dial light was masked out on every band 
except the one in  use made me realize I hadn't wasted my time drooling over 
the 
June 54 QST  and the story of the SX88 going to Clipperton.  

So now I've got  another great SX88 memory.  These are moments old radios are 
meant to  invoke, I guess, and I expect the reason we share a reflector, eh?

73,  Scott
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Neat story, thanks! Since I don't have the income of Joe Walsh, I'll  
probably never get to play with one of these jems!
 
ron
 
N4UE