[Hallicrafters] SX-117 Notes.

[Roger K8RI]

Many years ago, I purchased the SX-117, HT-44, and PS-150 combo new.  They 
worked very well, but I did run into some bad ceramic caps.  They must have 
gotten in a bad batch as I had most of the caps go out in one of the 
receiver stages (I no longer remember which) and I had the coupling cap from 
the driver to final develop a leak. (made it a bear to adjust the bias) 
<:-)).  It seems like there were a couple of other ceramic caps in the same 
area the went out, but as I said, that was a long time ago.  Also they can 
sometimes get a bit finicky with the frequency when using either VFO for 
transceive rather than independent.

The 117 and 44 make a very nice set.

Good Luck,

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com


>    As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I bought a SX-117 / HT-44 pair at 
> the recent Seattle Hamfest.  I've removed some mods that had been made to 
> the SX-117 and have just completed the "Customer addition of antenna 
> relay" as outlined in the HT-44 manual.  In looking through the HT-44 
> manual I find a section (7.2) on SX-117 notes which suggests two 
> performance modifications to the SX-117 receiver.
>    I find it interesting that Hallicrafters lists improvements for one 
> model in a different model's manual.  Does this occur in other 
> Hallicrafters manuals or is it just an anomaly for this pair?
> 73,  Skip  W7WGM
>
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