[Hallicrafters] OLD OR VINTAGE OR ANTIQUE

[Hunter Ellington]

The nice thing about this hobby is that you can find niches to
concentrate on.  I don't know if the S-38 was junk, I think probably
not.  It got many people into the hobby as a first receiver.  As for the
FT-2000, have you seen the glowing review of the radio in QST? Also for
the group, I have an FPM-300MKII for sale.  It is a restoration project.
It receives, but no audio on transmit.  Could use a new paint job on the
case.  Front panel is very nice with some minor scratches on the meter
face plate.  Power cord and a copy of the shop manual included.  Asking
$250.00 plus shipping.  73


R. Hunter Ellington, Esq.
Shareholder

Gorrell  Giles PC
1331 Seventeenth Street, Suite 1000
Denver, Colorado 80202
(303) 996-6585 Direct
(303) 996-2680 Fax
hunter.ellington at gorrellgiles.com


-----Original Message-----
From: hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Leland Bahr
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:12 PM
To: Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] OLD OR VINTAGE OR ANTIQUE

You are so correct, Dick.  As a kid (age 13) I bought a S-38C new.  I
worked the world with it on 10 meters.  I worked over 100 countries with
it and worked almost anyone I called on 40 and 80 meter CW.  (My brain
was the filter for interfearing stations.  Back then we did not have to
have a AM, SSB, or CW filter in a radio to use it.  Our skill levels
improved greatly
because of this).   My S-38C cost me around $40.00 and it listed for
$49.95
back then.  Today I must have twenty S-38s of one form or another.  If
these radios are "junk" as mentioned, the demand and price for them sure
does not indicate this to be true.  On the contrary the radio is a
marvel of skilled engineering.  The radio is of the "All American Five"
design which in itself is a engineering marvel.  To get such performance
out of so few inexpensive parts is amazing.  Then Hallicraftes took it a
step further and added a band scale tuning dial and included 4 shortwave
bands in addition to the broadcast band.  The look of a S-38 through the
S-38C series is wonderful.  Even though I bought a S-38C as a kid new,
my greatest love is for the S-38B with wrinkle black cabinet and green
dials. 
So what is "junk"?  Maybe it is Yaesu FT-2000 selling for $3000 with
more flaws and bugs in it then you can count.  Here we are today, 60
years later and you can still easily fix a S-38.  Let's see how easy it
is to fix a new Japanese  radio 60 years from now let alone 5 years from
now.  "(Sorry, display no longer available)".  Most all parts that would
ever wear out in a S-38 are still today available.  So, is a S-38 a
piece of junk?  I don't think so.  To me it is a marvelous piece of
American engineering.



> DEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS, Sonny!!!! I'm a' callin' you out to the middle 
> of
Main 
> Street at high noon.  We'll settle this matter with six  shooters.  
> Since
> 1946 I've owned at least one S-38, and now have six, including that
original 
> that I bought from Concord Radio in Chicago in 1946.  The only ones 
> I've seen that were "junk" had been abused and misused by some jerk 
> that
didn't 
> know what a Hallicrafter Radio was or represented, no matter what 
> model number it carried.  Of course, you are entitled to your opinion,

> but I'm reminded that "Opinions are like hemorrhoids, only A.. Ho... 
> have them Dick, WB8MHE
>


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