[Hallicrafters] SX-88

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Hi Greg, FWIW, I agree. Several years ago, I purchased and restored several R-388s. I was so impressed by their performance, I searched and located a nice 51J-3. The sensitivity and stability of the J-3 still amazes me. Combined with an outboard Product Detector (and audio amp), it's a great radio. Sure you can tune SSB with the BFO and ride the RF gain, but the PD-1 was left over from another project.
I also was interested in the SX-115 discussion. A year or so I acquired a SX-117. (poor man's SX-115 ha ha) 
I did all the mods outlined by Ray in ER magazine. I was VERY impressed with the improvements they made. I always wanted one of the 117s, since my late Uncle (and Elmer) had one.... He also had an RME 6900. I have one of those and recently refurbished 2 for a local chap. At one time I owned a 6900 and 6901 that was owned by Don Wallace, W6AM. He had 2. I have had many 6900s over the last couple of years, and kept a nice example for my collection.
Gotta love that loooong slide rule dial!!!!



ron
N4UE



-----Original Message-----
From: WA1KBQ <WA1KBQ at aol.com>
To: hallicrafters <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Oct 30, 2011 8:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-88


If you do it purely for your own enjoyment it matters not whether  you get 
pproval from others. If the economic side gets to  be important then the 
pinion of others starts to be important  also. Very generally speaking this 
eans in order to get the maximum  benefit or enjoy the equipment to its 
aximum advantage most prewar stuff should  be maintained as factory original as 
possible but most post  war stuff should be restored to proper working 
rder. The prewar stuff has very  little to offer when working and the postwar 
tuff has very little to  offer unless it does work. Most prewar stuff is 
istorically significant  while very little postwar stuff changed history to 
ny great degree  other than perhaps the Collins R-388. Every communications 
eceiver the  various manufacturers offered right up to the Collins R-388 is  
ssentially the RME-9 circuit in a different looking box. The RME-9 was the 
father of the communications receiver as we know it but the Collins R-388  
hanged everything.

egards, Greg


n a message dated 10/30/2011 7:52:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
cawthra at sbcglobal.net writes:
I find  that I like the looks and history behind the old rigs but I'm 
ecoming  
ore practical. I'm beginning to thin down my collection. I thought I was  
oing 
o "wow" the club members with the gold dust twins all that was said  was 
they 
ure are big and heavy" I really like the E-Ham reviews when a  guy 
ompares a 
ld rig to his 2000+ rig and gives the old rig a low  rating. Sort of like 
omparing a 1954 corvette to a 2010 corvette.   Saying all that I almost 
ought a 
auer 707 transmitter, it was all I  could do to walk away, I say 
ollecting is a 
isease. Howard  KA6IOB
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