[Hallicrafters] SX-62 color

[Mike Everette]

I think the "color" used in early ARRL Handbooks and in QST was actually some sort of "semi-tone" to enhance a page by adding different color borders, backgrounds or lettering.  In all my 30s vintage QST and a couple or three old Handbooks, I don't recall seeing an actual color photograph.

In some cases they may have overprinted a photo with red, hence my terming it "semi-tone."

At this point my mind is not coming up with colors other than reds or perhaps shades of orange.  There MAY have been some few instances where blue or green were used, maybe in some Halli ads.

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Sun, 12/30/12, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-62 color
> To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>, "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>, "hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net" <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, December 30, 2012, 9:44 PM
> The ARRL used color printing at least
> as far back as the 1936 Handbook.  My 1933 Handbook doesn't
> have any color printing and I don't have a 1934 or 1935
> Handbook.  However, most companies did not want to spend
> the money on color advertisements!  Now, the quality of the
> color reproduction was pretty "iffy" for decades.  Some of
> the photos in the 1950 edition are fairly "close" as to
> colors and some definitely are not that close to the actual
> colors of the equipment.
>  
> Glen, K9STH
> 
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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> ________________________________
>  From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> To: David  Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>;
> hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> 
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-62 color
>  
>     A caveat, I don't think the ARRL did four-color
> printing at the time so judging equipment colors from the
> catalogue illustrations may be misleading.
>     I know exactly what you mean about the multi-page
> Hallicrafters catalogue inserts. They made very sexy looking
> equipment. The curious thing is that I saw much of this
> stuff in various stores when it was new but don't remember
> much of what the color scheme was.
>     In my very early teens my dad used to take me to Henry
> Radio in West L.A.  They had a bit demonstration room with
> all the latest receivers in it and a couple of others with
> used equipment some of which was hooked up.  Talk about
> your wet dreams Oh My.
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