[Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no silly instructions

Wed Nov 9 20:50:07 EST 2011

My memory sometimes gets me in trouble also but I have bookcases filled with 
the real thing.

Carl
KM1H

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
To: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>; 
"Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no silly instructions

Re the ad, I was going from memory because my stash of archived CQ and QST 
ads is on another computer.  OK, my memory wasn't exactly right, but I was 
sort of close.

I'll have to try the Pepsi for cleaning a chassis; but I wouldn't put a Coke 
in anything (let alone myself).  For a grade school science experiment, I 
once dropped a roofing nail into a "small Coke" -- the kind that came in the 
short glass bottles; and they were always somewhat stronger than the "big 
Coke."  (Does anyone remember the "BC Powder and a Coke" for headaches... 
maybe they didn't know about that in yankee-land, hmm).

The nail was completely dissolved in a little over 3 days.

Don't think I'd use Coke on aluminum.

Pepsi, on the other hand, is good for what ails ya.  Plus, it was born in 
NC.  New Bern, to be exact....

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Wed, 11/9/11, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:

> From: Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no silly 
> instructions
> To: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com>, "TC Dailey" 
> <daileyservices at qwest.net>, hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 11:38 AM
> Im reading the original ad right now
> and it says nothing about "available on
> priority for now"
>
> What is does say is "available as soon as military demands
> are filled" And
> further down the page "We will be glad to send you details
> on the RME series
> receivers as they are announced"
>
> It wasnt until the April issue that a tiny " * Now sold on
> priority to
> essential services" showed at the bottom of the page.
>
> Still no pricing or listed by any dealers even in December
> 45 CQ.
>
> The first dealer listing is in the October 1945 QST at $166
> which also
> included the Big 3. I suspect the OPA had restricted the
> release. The
> HQ-129X certainly was a better deal at $129 then.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
> .
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
> To: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>;
> <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>;
>
> "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no
> silly instructions
>
>
> > Ads for the RME-45 began appearing in CQ Magazine in
> January 1945
> > (available on priority for now"). RME got the
> jump even on Bill Halligan
> > as far as advertising "post war receivers." In
> truth the 45 is very
> > similar, but not quite identical to the pre-was
> RME-43.
> >
> > I have a 45 which is a work in progress. I have
> used it enough to know
> > it's not "terrible" since it was working when I got
> it; but as-was, it's
> > hardly the best receiver I've ever used. So far
> anyway....
> >
> > There was a series of postings on I believe the
> Boatanchors forum some
> > years back by Henry Van Cleef, describing how to
> somewhat re-engineer the
> > receiver and actually improve it quite a bit (as he
> claimed anyway).
> >
> > I worked on a 45 a long, long time ago for a newbie
> who'd found it at a
> > fest. It actually did an acceptable hob, and the
> tuning was real smooth
> > with the 2-speed dial (it was a B model). The
> dial and panel layout on
> > the 45 are very similar to a Johnson Ranger; and if
> you didn't know better
> > you might think it's a "matching" receiver (it's
> not)... in fact I was
> > tempted to paint my 45's panel and cabinet to match
> the Ranger, just to
> > confound the clueless.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Mike
> > W4DSE
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 11/8/11, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't
> need no silly
> >> instructions
> >> To: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>,
> hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> >> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 2:36 PM
> >> My RME-45 has a final inspection sign
> >> off of 11/5/45 making it one of the
> >> earliest postwar radios. The schematic and even
> some
> >> component locations are
> >> in their own world compared to later production.
> And talk
> >> about a lot of
> >> wasted space to make it look bigger! What a
> fraud.
> >>
> >> It looks nice on display with the matching speaker
> plus
> >> DB-22A and VHF-152A
> >> but is typical RME junk as far as using. The
> DB-22A can
> >> actually be turned
> >> into something useful.
> >>
> >> Carl
> >> KM1H
> >> .
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
> >> To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:03 AM
> >> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need
> no silly
> >> instructions
> >>
> >>
> >> > ...and that RME-45 I had did NOT match the
> schematic
> >> AT ALL; well, the IF
> >> > cans did.
> >> >
> >> > Tom
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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