[Hallicrafters] OLD OR VINTAGE OR ANTIQUE

[Lloyd KK7IZ]

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Thanx
Lloyd  KK7IZ
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Bunn" <Julian.Bunn at caltech.edu>
To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
Cc: "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; "Peter Markavage" 
<manualman at juno.com>; <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>; "Dick Blaney" 
<wb8mhe at bright.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] OLD OR VINTAGE OR ANTIQUE


> For some, like me, it's not so much the build quality, but the design
> that attracts. These older radios just look great, in my opinion. The
> early 38 (although I don't have one) in particular is a beautiful looking
> radio with the dial shapes and layout. Clearly vintage. I would never call
> it an antique, though. That it's old goes without saying.
>
> Another 2c towards the pile of coins on the table.
>
> Julian
>
>
>
> Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
>> On 9/18/07, Dick Blaney <wb8mhe at bright.net> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I think Carl was just using the more readily-accepted shortcut for the
>> term 'of low quality'. I agree completely with his assessments and
>> comparisons. Never was lucky *cough* enough to own the venerable S-38,
>> but my first SW receiver was a step or two higher: the S-40B. It
>> wasn't junk, just really cheap and marginal. I got hours of enjoyment
>> from it and never would've known what I was missing, had it not been
>> for that $5 National RAO I tripped over beneath a table at a garage
>> sale.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong - I understand and fully appreciate the gap that
>> Halli, Heath, and WRL filled with some lower quality items. Obviously
>> there was a need and a market, or the stuff wouldn't still be so
>> prolific, endlessly surfacing on ebay, at hamfests, yard sales and so
>> on.
>>
>> If you were to set a brand new S-38 next to an equally new SX-28 or
>> SX-88, you might think.....that dinky little radio looks like a piece
>> of junk! If you had nothing to compare it against, it might not look
>> so bad. Most of us were never lucky enough to have that exposure early
>> on, which is a blessing it disguise. It allowed us to develop an
>> appreciation, through experience.
>>
>> Which is why I, too, cannot understand why anyone would pay so much
>> for an S-38 - ebay or otherwise. 'Nostalgia' does crazy things to
>> people.
>>
>>
>> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
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