[Hallicrafters] Soild state vs Tubes

[Peter Markavage]

Maybe for some, but for me, restoring is the challenge of bringing
something back to life to all its glory. Warm glow or no glow, it makes
no difference to me.  I'd rather just put my ear up to the speaker or put
on a set of cans. Just watching tubes glow, doesn't do it for me.
 
Pete, wa2cwa
 
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:58:53 EDT HallicrafterSX28 at aol.com writes:
> The whole purpose of  restoring a 60 or 70 year old radio is to  
> experience 
> the glow and warmth of a thermionic vacuum tube  !! If you want  to 
> use solid 
> state replacements then you might as well remove all of the tubes  
> and insert 
> transistors in all the sockets(of course with the proper voltage  
> dropping 
> resistors !) that would defintely reduce ALL heating and load on the 
>  power 
> transformer !!
> I like  to open the top lid on my SX-28 or SX-17 to  enjoy the warm 
> orange 
> glow to comes of all the tubes including the rectifier  tube when 
> it's pulling 
> signals from a distant station.
> My 2  cents
> Nick