[Hallicrafters] SX-88 Value Controversy Continues

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Interestip topic. Just do not ride a dead Horse too far! Hard on their 
shoeless hoofs! (LOL!)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <ranickel at comcast.net>
To: <kt4ae at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-88 Value Controversy Continues


> Harry Vaught, KT4AE wrote:
>> My point, perhaps poorly delivered, was that no one's mind will be
>> changed about the SX-88 no matter how much wrangling takes place.
> Harry, I think your words were divinely inspired!   Being something of
> an "accidental SX-88 owner",  I thought I'd weigh in on a possible
> reason why the SX-88 commands stratospheric prices today.
>
> I'd like to enter to the April 1992 issue of Electric Radio into
> evidence.  That was the final issue of the third year of publication
> (the one featuring a picture of my buddy Skip K7YOO on the cover) - and
> page 30,  Mike O'Brien NØNLQ tells, for the first time for most of us I
> suspect, the mystery and lore of the SX-88 in his article "SX-88:
> Hallicrafters Highwater Mark".   I fetched down my copy and had to laugh
> at his opening comment that a fellow had recently offered to pay "four
> figures" for a specimen of this receiver.
>
> It's a good article and most of the salient points have already been
> made on this threat.  I mention it because, in most hobbies, there's
> always an element of, for lack of a better term. "one-upsmanship".   I
> don't think that's a bad thing, after all for many hams it's what
> motivates us to build, to contest or DX, or in our little corner of the
> hobby, to seek out the rare and wonderful rigs of the past to own,
> restore, and use.   Once an article like this appears, where the title
> alone triggers that visceral reaction that collectors recognize all too
> well -  who wouldn't start keeping his eye open for one?
>
> Good marketing and advertizing creates artificial demand all the time.
> I think O'Briens' article did that for the SX-88, and as the saying
> goes, "the rest is history".
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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