[Hallicrafters] Re The SX-110 Is General Coverage

[k0myw at att.net]

Rather than a Hallicrafters SX-110, perhaps he has a Hammarlund HQ-110, which is ham-band only.

Mike, K0MYW


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From: "W8DBF D.B. Fischer" <dfischer at usol.com>
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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