[Hallicrafters] Best Rx?

[Glen Zook]

As I mentioned before, the SX-111 was advertised on page 109 of the December 1959 issue of QST with the same description.  This is the first advertisement that I could find.  However, I am missing a couple of the 1959 issues of QST.

Of course, the advertisements in the back of the ARRL Handbook do not always show equipment actually produced.  For example, the Collins Radio advertisement in the 1955 Handbook promote the 32W-1 SSB exciter and the 30L-1 TRANSMITTER (not the later S-Line linear).  The 32W-1 never got out of the prototype stage and the nomenclature of the 30L-1 transmitter was changed to KWS-1 although if you look closely at the early KWS-1 advertisements you will see that the unit pictured actually has 30L-1 on it!

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Mon, 11/29/10, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

FWIW, I looked at old Radio Amateur Handbooks, the SX-111 does not appear in the 1959 edition, but does in the 1960 one. Note that these handbooks were put to bed the year before. In the 1960 catalogue section the SX-111 is described as follows: "Here's the receiver you've been waiting for-a real thoroughbred that retains the _the essential performance characteristics_ of the renowned SX-101, but at a price than can put it in your shack tomorrow!

Under features its described as having a built-in crystal calibrator and a calibration control is included in the control list. Tube line up is described as ten tubes plus rectifier and regulator.

Its possible the receiver was actually announced mid-year and was changed before the end of year catalogue that appears in this book.

All editions of QST are available to members on the web site so one could look through the Hallicrafters advertising to find the actual first announcement of the SX-111 to see what features it had at that time. I'm still on a dial-up so it would take me forever.

Another FWIW, the 1959 catalogue has the SX-101 Mark III, the later book had the SX-101A confirming what someone else posted.