[Hallicrafters] Re The SX-110 Is General Coverage

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

There is a Ham in Colorado who every now and then checks into the Sunday HCI 
20 meter Net who uses a SX-110 as his receiver. He has insisted twice that 
it is a "Ham Band Only" receiver and is "not" general coverage. I disagreed 
with him, as every SX-110 I have ever encountered had a first band that was 
Medium Wave, roughly 540-1600 KCS, definitely general coverage and not 
"Ham".

However, thinking that perhaps he had simply mispoken and said Hallicrafters 
when it was the same "110" but by a different manufacturer, I mentioned it. 
"NO!" It was Hallicrafters and he claimed that it even said "Ham Band Only" 
on the front of it. Well, what did we have? A prototype? A confused owner? 
Or a previously unknown Hallicrafters model?

I contacted my good friend Chuck Dachis to see what he knew about this. His 
reply follows.

Hi Duane,

You are NOT wrong, the SX-110 is a general coverage receiver with band
spread calibrated for the ham bands. No where on any SX-110 I have seen does
it say ham band only, and all descriptions of this radio I have seen call it
a general coverage.

Chuck

Do any of you have any rational ideas as to why this Ham is so convinced his 
SX-110 is Ham Band Only, even though band A is obviously covering medium 
wave standard broadcast stations? Since I am totally blind and can not see 
the front panel, is there something on the front so convincing that he 
disregards the obvious? Or is he simply believing what he wants to believe?

DBF