[Hallicrafters] S-53?

[jeremy-ca]

In 1959 you could have worked the world with a regen on 15M as it was the 
peak of Sunspot Cycle 19.

Even so a school pal had a new S-53A and I had a second hand HQ-129X during 
that cycle. Guess who heard a heck of a lot better with both using similar 
antennas?

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>; 
"Halicrafters" <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] S-53?


> The S-107 was a "reboxed" S-53A.  I had an S-107 when
> I was a Novice Class and for the first few months as a
> General Class back in 1959.  Frankly, it worked pretty
> well even on 15 meters.  10 meters and 6 meters were
> marginal, but the receiver was pretty much as
> sensitive as many of the "el cheapo" 6 meter AM rigs
> of the day.
>
> Ended up with a couple of them when "re-creating" my
> Novice station.
>
> The 6 meter band actually uses the bandspread and the
> receiver will tune from around 25 MHz to around 56 MHz
> but the dial is not calibrated.
>
> I worked KC4USB at Marie Byrd Land Antarctica on 15
> meter CW when I was a Novice from northwestern
> Indiana.  Also, worked a "fair" number of other
> stations on 15 meters using the receiver.
>
> Now the receiver does drift until it gets really
> warmed up.  However, not any worse than the majority
> of the low to medium "end" receivers of the late
> 1950s.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
> --- jeremy-ca <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
>
> The S-53 has an 2075 KHz IF and was a one year wonder.
> The S-53A had 455 KHz and a real BFO which was only in
> the original S-38.
>
> Both S-53's had a make believe 6M switch position but
> they also had 2 IF stages as well as seperate
> oscillator and mixer making for less noise than a
> 6SA7/6BE6 type pentagrid mixer.
>
> The A model wasnt a half bad entry level radio for
> 80/40M.
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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