[Hallicrafters] SX-88 Value Controversy- Pictures

[Carl]

With at least 2 production runs that Im aware of and rather extensive 
advertising Id say they were trying to establish a high end foothold and 
not simply clearing inventory.

With the HRO-60 in the same price range and minus several SX-88 features 
it had about a 14 year successful run and substantial sales.

With Collins, National, Hammarlund and TMC having extensive government 
business it makes me wonder what the buyers found wrong with the SX-88??

Carl
KM1H





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> The fact that it sold in low numbers (miserably  you said) was because 
> the
> receiver was originally targeting a government  contract that did not 
> go
> through. Hallicrafters decided to go through with a  small production 
> run anyway at a
> loss as a "halo" receiver which ended up  selling around 500 units 
> over the
> course of one year but the high price ($5000  in today's dollars) was 
> more than
> most hams were willing to shell out for a  Hallicrafters. Around 100 
> have
> been accounted for so far today.
>
> -Greg  Gore
>
>
> From: km1h at jeremy.mv.com
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> Sent: 2/7/2009 5:35:40 P.M. US Eastern Standard  Time
> Subj: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-88 Value Controversy-  Pictures
>
>
> Why not let Jay, W1VD, run it thru its paces as he has done  with many
> other vintage radios on AMfone?
>
> That would settle its  performance pretty well dont you think?
>
> The one I owned was only about 10  years old when I got it and as I 
> said
> earlier I wasnt impressed. (As a  teenager in the 50's I wanted one
> simply for the looks but reality resulted  in a HQ-129X). Neither were 
> a
> few engineers at National that put it thru its  paces. Even then it 
> had
> an aura that it was something more than just a well  built radio. They
> were primarily comparing it to the NC-400 which has its  own set of
> problems IMO.
>
> The fact that it sold miserably speaks  volumes of what prospective
> buyers thought of it then.
>
> When I sold  it, it was all original so naturally performance was way
> down in 1998 or so.  My parents used it to listen to SW classical 
> music
> and gave it back when  they moved to a condo in NC.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
>
> ----- Original  Message ----- 
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> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:20  PM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-88 Value Controversy-  Pictures
>
>
>> Pictures with short descriptions of a typical   SX-88 restoration at:
>>  http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=17990.20
>>
>>
>> Go to  the bottom  of page two. This was a recent discussion at
>>  amfone.net on
>> vintage receiver  performance.
>>
>>  Regards, Greg
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