[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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- 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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