[Hallicrafters] Re The SX-110 Is General Coverage

[Glen Zook]

Maybe it is an SX-111.

Glen, K9STH


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

> 
> 
> 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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Glen, K9STH

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