[Hallicrafters] Fwd: SX-88 Value

[WA1KBQ at aol.com]

My posts and pictures followed the  unwarranted and unsubstantiated 
criticism. These kinds of comments are typical  from folks who have never rebuilt and 
carefully aligned an SX-88 and thus  probably never had the chance to 
experience a properly performing  speciman.

-Greg Gore


From: WA1KBQ at aol.com
To:  youngbob53 at msn.com, hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 2/7/2009 7:32:37 P.M.  US Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-88  Value


Hi-jacked thread? Really, how so??? 

-Greg  Gore

In a message  dated 2/7/2009 youngbob53 at msn.com  writes:
>It looks like the thread was  hijacked by some SX-88  nut!

>Bob Young
>Analog,  MA
>KB1OKL


FROM  THE AMFORUM: 

W3JN who initiated the  thread said in post #7  (excerpt):
"My experiences are borne by generally  having owned/restored  multiple 
copies 
(in some cases 8-10 of the same  radio).  It's  interesting, yet predictible, 
that my inclusion of the 75A-4  on the  "worst" list has created a fair 
amount 
of breast beating.  It's   certainly not a bad receiver by any means; it has 
its plusses and minuses  just  like anything else, but is certainly by far 
the 
WORST value (with  the exception  of an SX-88) in a ham band receiver out 
there 
if you're  paying  "retail".

Then in post #8 W9LBB responded with  this:
"Funny you should  mention the SX-88. I wound up swapping my  GPR-90 to a 
local here who ALSO has an  SX-88 on the operating bench!  I've tuned it a 
few 
times, but I don't see  anything mystical about it;  the beast is a competent 
tube 
receiver, and that's  about it. That rig  has to be the KING of overrated 
receivers!"

Which was  followed  by this one from the OP W3JN in post #11:
"Per the SX-88, I have  one,  and it's nice but nothing special IMHO.  The 
75A-4 is a better   reciever, and a better value if you're paying $5K+ for a 
SX-88.  Course  I  didn't pay anywhere NEAR that for mine.  I like the SX-88 
and  
prolly  wouldn't get rid of it, mainly because it came from a  friend.



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