[Hallicrafters] S-27 with a war record

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

Anyone have any interest in a working S-27 that saw action in both the South 
Pacific and Italy aboard the USS Boise Light Cruiser?

Charlie,  k3ICH


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Sent: Sunday, October 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
> approval from others. If the economic side gets to  be important then the
> opinion of others starts to be important  also. Very generally speaking 
> this
> means in order to get the maximum  benefit or enjoy the equipment to its
> maximum advantage most prewar stuff should  be maintained as factory 
> original as
> possible but most post  war stuff should be restored to proper working
> order. The prewar stuff has very  little to offer when working and the 
> postwar
> stuff has very little to  offer unless it does work. Most prewar stuff is
> historically significant  while very little postwar stuff changed history 
> to
> any great degree  other than perhaps the Collins R-388. Every 
> communications
> receiver the  various manufacturers offered right up to the Collins R-388 
> is
> essentially 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
> changed everything.
>
> Regards, Greg
>
>
> In a message dated 10/30/2011 7:52:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> hcawthra at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> I find  that I like the looks and history behind the old rigs but I'm
> becoming
> more practical. I'm beginning to thin down my collection. I thought I was
> going
> to "wow" the club members with the gold dust twins all that was said  was
> "they
> sure are big and heavy" I really like the E-Ham reviews when a  guy
> compares a
> old rig to his 2000+ rig and gives the old rig a low  rating. Sort of like
> comparing a 1954 corvette to a 2010 corvette.   Saying all that I almost
> bought a
> Bauer 707 transmitter, it was all I  could do to walk away, I say
> collecting is a
> disease. Howard  KA6IOB
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