[Hallicrafters] Finely crafted memories

[jeremy-ca]

Ah yes, good old B-A. I visited there several times in 1960 when I was 
stationed at NAS Olathe, KS. The hams at the club station, K0NAB, would vist 
there to scrounge parts to modify the BC-610 and 75A1 and drool.

The ear is a great tool, I got my Novice by listening to CW on a home brew 
regen which served a few months for contacts also. However it was useless on 
15M so the pre WW2 SX-25 came along but it was a dog (needed work I wasnt 
aware of at that tender age) and I got a 5 year old HQ-129X with paper route 
money.

What your friend Kirk should have said if he was a bit more aware of life is 
that the S-38D was the height of BRAND NEW ABSOLUTE MINIMUM COST 
affordability.  Many fell into that trap never to be heard on the air again.

Compare the 38 to buying a new Pinto, Vega or Yugo.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas C. Dailey - Dailey Services, LLC" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:16 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Finely crafted memories


> Finely crafted memories - that's what they are.  When I was a kid of 13 in 
> 1956, I LUSTED (thanks for the line, J. Carter) for an S-38D.  At only 
> $49.95 it was well, sort of affordable.  I lived in Kansas City, so my 
> buddy and I would ride the bus (imagine that, a bus) downtown to 
> Burstein-Applebee (B-A), for whom I worked later on, and being issued our 
> figurative drool cup, we would be loaned a pair of TRIMM or ACME earphones 
> (very hard & uncomfortable, those), so that we could listen to the 
> receivers.  As I had not yet obtained the elusive NOVICE, we were not 
> allowed to play with such etherial wonders, such as transmitters.  Many, 
> many, years (and radios) later, I would finally own the coveted ORIGINAL 
> S-38, then a brace of others, until finally culminating in the wonder of 
> the modern age - the little brother to the SX-62A - the S-38D.  Ohhh, how 
> it's slide-rule dial exposed every country known to man (hey, just put the 
> yellow pointer there, and it'd be the BBC, right?).  I've since repaired 6 
> of 'em, but even after the multitude of other "better" receivers, the 
> words of my friend Kirk, still known after grade school, Junior High, High 
> School and Life - said it best a few years ago.
>
> "In 1956, the Hallicrafters S-38D represented the HEIGHT of "affordable 
> technology" to a kid of 13".
>
> 'nuff said - sic transit loudspeakerum
>
> TC
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