[Hallicrafters] Echophone Commercial EC-3 For Sale

[rbethman]

I have run into some bit of confusion.

I do NOT doubt Chuck Dachi, BUT, then I have to look at:

<http://www.qsl.net/la5ki/echo.htm>

This photobucket album pic "seems" to be an EC-1 not the wood cabinet EC-3.

Either that or I've missed the boat somewhere.

Bob - N0DGN

On 3/29/2011 3:10 PM, KA6UUP wrote:
> I have an Echophone EC-3 for sale
>
>    Pictures are here: http://s943.photobucket.com/albums/ad271/ka6uup/
>
>    It is in excellent working condition.
>
>   <snip>
>
>    "The Echophones of the 1940 era were made by Hallicrafters who
> acquired the Echophone Co.
> The EC-3 is an 8-tube receiver, 3 bands, covering 550 kc to 30 Mcs with
> electrical bandspread. There are four selectivity options, Broad and
> Narrow IF and Broad and Narrow Crystal. It is a transformerless design,
> i.e. HOT chassis.
> One unique feature of the set is that it has a built-in keying monitor
> to allow one to monitor his sending during transmit.
> Sensitivity and selectivity are fairly good with one tuned RF and 2 IF
> amp stages. Dial tracking and calibration is rather poor."
>
>    I checked for voltage between the chassis and ground and found
> nothing. Not sure what that means, but, my S-38 will shock the crap out
> of you if you are not careful ;-}}
>
>    This is a nice example of this radio from my personal collection.
>
> I can provide a PDF manual copy if wanted.
>
> I want $125 plus shipping.
>
> Chuck KA6UUP