[Hallicrafters] Communications Receivers - why speakers separate?

[Julian Bunn]

I always assumed the lack of enclosed speaker on communications receivers
was because most hams used headphones instead?

Julian


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:35 AM, John via Hallicrafters <
hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Price was probably was probably the first issue with cabinet size required
> for a larger speaker as a second one.  Also, many hams already had a
> speaker or two laying around and were quite willing to buy a receiver that
> did not have an internal speaker.
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>  73,
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>  John,  W4AWM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Sutfin <stephoto at mind.net>
> To: Peter VK6PM <peter_may at optusnet.com.au>
> Cc: hallicrafters <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sat, May 31, 2014 2:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Communications Receivers - why speakers
> separate?
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> It was always my thought that the issue was 'stability'; not
> cheapness. Even though the cabinets were metal the vibration from a
> speaker could affect stability in the older tube rigs. And of course
> that was before hollow -state and PLL.
> YMMV,
> Steve k7dna
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> On May 30, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Peter VK6PM wrote:
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> > I've been chatting with some younger amateurs on a local net, and
> > the question of why communications receivers did not come supplied
> > with built-in loudspeakers emerged.
> >
> > Some of the younger guys reckon that  it appears to be at the
> > outmost extremity of "stinginess" that you would have to buy the
> > speaker separately.
> >
> > Historically, broadcast receivers from the crystal set era onwards
> > came with a built in loudspeaker.
> >
> > I shot down the argument that it was just USA companies (which was
> > the original beef, aimed at the Lafayette HA-600), pointing out
> > that Eddystone (UK) STC and Kingsley (Aust) also followed the
> > practice.
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> > Does anyone have any ideas on this one? I don't have any sensible
> > answers for the young blokes.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Peter VK6PM
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