[Hallicrafters] Receivers during WW-II

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On 7/2/07, Thomas C. Dailey - Dailey Services, LLC
<daileyservices at qwest.net> wrote:
> Another VERY POPULAR receiver, used by the UK, in WW-II was the National HRO
> Senior.  There are 2 or 3 of them in the Imperial War Museum, and about 3 or
> 4, still on the "interecept positions", at Bletchley Park (Home of the
> ENIGMA code-breaking efforts).  I conveyed information concerning these, to
> Mr. Fergus Read of the IWM, as one of the HRO Seniors in the IWM's
> "Clandestine" exhibit, has a small VERY post-war Japanese vernier dial on
> it, for bandspread... clearly NOT accurate.
>
> SX-28's were very popular, though.

AR88s also. There's a reason you see so few of them here in the
states, the Commonwealth countries and USSR got most of them through
Lend/Lease.

I've read accounts of college students and citizens of the UK in
general, here in the states during those times, picking up new
civilian HROs to bring back there for the war effort. They also
gobbled up all of the Halli S-27s they could find, used at the time
for locating German Knickebein beams among other things. Back in the
days when VHF as considered UHF.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ