[Hallicrafters] Frivolous Hallicrafters SX-88 Post

[John via Hallicrafters]

Enough already!
 
73,
 
John, W4AWM
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/19/2015 11:10:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net writes:



Todd,

Please, please calm down, this is not worth  getting that upset over to the 
point you feel compelled to type out long angry  replies at 11:30PM. The 
post was not intended to be a personal attack as you  are a fellow long time 
1-land ham and a fine person I believe but I do want to  counter 
misinformation you post when I find it. I don't understand why you  foster so much 
animosity toward the Hallicrafters SX-88. You've never owned  one, nor operated a 
good one one but your hostility seems apparent every time  you include 
yourself in discussions about them. I don't believe the SX-88 is  the finest 
receiver of all time but I do think they're pretty good and they  are somewhat 
scarce. Other receivers I have here that best it, and they should  include: 
Icom IC-R9000, JRC NRD-545, HRO-600 and HRO-500

Still, the  SX-88 is a great receiver and an engineering masterpiece, 
especially  considering the 1954 time frame and I've probably gone deeper into 
them than  most would feel comfortable with except of course for Jay, W1VD, 
whom I've  learned a lot from and highly respect. As Jay said, The SX-88 is 
the only  receiver to ever use that particular IF transformer design and it's 
one of the  main reasons the receiver is desireable. I'm at the point now 
where I don't  bench test them first anymore, I strip everything away and 
rebuild the entire  receiver back into good condition again. One improvement I 
am in the process  of implementing is to begin aligning the 50KC 2nd IF 
amplifier with a Hewlett  Packard HP3585 spectrum analyzer in order to exactly 
reproduce the original  engineering curves for the IF response. Considering 
the number of hours and  amount of work it takes to do good thorough work one 
does not restore SX-88  receivers with the idea of lining their pockets. It 
is entirely a la
bor of  love, purely for the enjoyment and personal achievement because few 
go that  far to that extent. I am keeping track of my time on my current 
job just to  see exactly what I will have invested in it but I estimate a 
couple hundred  hours each on earlier jobs. SX-88s are my passion and I do enjoy 
having  success with them; it's a therapeutic diversion away from my day 
job which for  the last 23 years has been my involvement in the engine lab for 
Hendrick  Motorsports. We've won over 350 NASCAR races with the best and 
most popular  drivers in the industry so I've been fortunate to enjoy sharing 
in the success  there  also.

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m191/wa1kbq/SX-88%20-%20400/SX88-40026.jp
g
Ready  for soaking with oil and a twist of the golden screwdriver

Greg  Gore
WA1KBQ


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