[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters Radios on a TV Show

[Richard Knoppow]

    I think You Tube has some "Sky King" shows. The quality of the video 
varies all over the place for "Highway Patrol" some excellent, a lot awful.
    I remember "Sky King" on TV but it was a staple on radio (remember 
that) when I was a little kid. It was a favorite. Done in Chicago along 
with "Jack Armstrong".  I think it was a half hour show. ABC radio had 
these two along with "The Lone Ranger", "Challenge of the Yukon" and 
"The Green Hornet", the last three from Detroit (my home town). There 
may have been another. These shows ran at dinner time. My memory of the 
TV show is that it was more like the radio show than "The Lone Ranger" was.
     People who are younger than about seventy have no idea what radio 
was like before TV.
     BTW, Hallicrafters seems to have had the inside track on getting 
equipment into movies and TV shows. Goes back a long way. There is too 
much to be just the appearance so I suspect some early "product 
placement".  OTOH, Hallicrafters always payed a lot of attention to 
styling and also made a lot of different equipment. Their radios LOOK 
like radios.

On 12/19/2016 6:17 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
> You want Hallicrafters??
> I bought the entire series of "Sky King" at Dayton last year (cheap, the
> videos are REALLY low res.) and we've watched all 72 of them (Yes "we"
> because my wife & I both luvd the show as kids)
> Early shows had several stations, one at Sky's "Flying Crown" ranch and one
> at the local sheriff's office, both  consisting on an SX-42 and what looks
> like an HT-9 transmitter.
> They correctly refer to "using the short-wave" to communicate.  However,
> they never show the radio's in either their twin Cessna B-10, the
> "Song-Bird" or their station wagon, but they were used extensively during
> the shows.  Curiously, I don't remember seeing any sort of antenna on the
> wagon either.
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> Later, when the plane improved to a C-310, most of the stations were of
> various Gonset pieces such as their 50 watt base and various other receivers
> and accessories.
> The plane had a typical PTT mile and they'd correctly flip a switch on the
> base stations to go from Rx to Tx.
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> All in all proper radio use and procedure, plus surprisingly good scripts
> for a ½ hour children's show from the early 50's.
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> 73, Charlie k3ICH
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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL