[Hallicrafters] sx 110

[kim.herron at sbcglobal.net]

Hi Glen,
    In other words, you want people to become mostly competent, instead of 
just whiners.  The fix for the latter is to offer a nice piece of cheese to 
go with the whine.  Been there, done that (DX-35 and Star Roamer), got the 
T-Shirt (says Collins).

W8ZV
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: <WA1KBQ at aol.com>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] sx 110


> When I was a Novice Class in 1959 "the" Novice Class
> and early General Class station was a Heath DX-40 and
> a Hallicrafters SX-99.  Myself, I had a WRL Globe
> Chief 90A and Hallicrafters S-107 (reboxed S-53A) and
> upgraded to a Hallicrafters S-85 about a year after
> upgrading to General Class, then shortly thereafter I
> replaced the Globe Chief with a Heath DX-100.  There
> were a lot of Novice Class using the S-38 series,
> National SW-54, and Heath AR-3 receivers.
>
> The receivers drifted, many were basically deaf above
> 14 MHz, the bandpass was "broad as a barn", etc.
> However, no one ever told us how "bad" our receivers
> were so we acquired a cebreal filter, just used them,
> didn't complain about QRM, made thousands of contacts,
> and, basically, "had a ball".
>
> Not many amateur radio operators in those days owned
> Collins or the "top of the line" by any manufacturer.
> In general, at least 90% of the receivers that were in
> general use until at least the last half of the 1960s
> were junk by today's standards.  When I hear someone
> complain about QRM on SSB from stations 5 KHz away or
> from CW stations 2 KHz away I start thinking that it
> should be a requirement that all new amateur radio
> operators have to operate for a year using the wide
> bandwith, drift prone, deaf as a doornail above 14
> MHz, etc.  Then after they were allowed to operate
> with "modern" equipment the number of QRM complaints
> would be almost zero!
>
> Glen, K9STH
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> --- WA1KBQ at aol.com wrote:
>
> I don't think the SX-110 receiver really had a
> matching transmitter. With the addition of an s-meter
> and a crystal filter the SX-110 was the deluxe version
> of the S-108. I would call the S-108/ SX-110  series a
> short-wave listener receiver rather than a
> communications receiver though it does have a
> stand-by/ rec switch. The S-108/ SX-110 was the final
> iteration of the original 1939 S-20R. Hallicrafters
> sure got a lot of mileage  from that one basic circuit
> over the years and you can trace the lineage all the
> way through starting with S-20R and then on to S-40,
> then  to S-85 (and SX-99), which led to S-108/ SX-110.
> The tube types evolved a little but the circuit was
> essentially the old S-20R circuit which by the way was
> pretty good considering what it cost. I have always
> thought the S-20R was hands down the best buy at the
> time and offered the most bang for the buck in 1940.
> As others  have already mentioned the SX-111 was the
> intended match for the HT-37. SX-111 covered amateur
> bands only in CW-AM-SSB modes with a product detector
> (at least in the later versions) and was a real
> communications receiver. I have used them  and they
> are actually quite good though not as mechanically
> robust as an SX-101  or SX-101A.
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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