[Hammarlund] HQ-170

[JM/CO]

I believe that the original poster asked what the characteristics of the
HQ-170 were. It sounded as if he had little experience with BA radios. The
main thing to know about a HQ-170, is that it is a ham-band  rcvr, as
opposed to a general coverage unit. If he bought the thing thinking that he
could listen to the BBC, he's in for some disappointment. I agree with your
comments re the HQ-180. I have one also, and it gets a lot of use.
Chuck N1LNH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Tanton" <n4xy@earthlink.net>
To: "JM/CO" <jmerritt2@capecod.net>; <hammarlund@mailman.qth.net>; "Fabio
Liberatori" <liber.fab@iol.it>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] HQ-170


> Respectfully, I disagree Chuck. Both radios do just fine on CW and SSB.
> They require a certain amount of getting used to, and there are certainly
> radios that perform better (but not THAT many TUBE radios); yet my HQ-180
> is an excellent receiver I have used for months at a time-including
> recently on CW, without the slightest difficulty... and that's w/o my
> NIR-12 Dual-DSP unit (that isn't hooked up at the moment.)
>
> At one time, MANY (~1964) years ago, I had an utterly unsatisfactory
> HQ-170-A... drifted like a son-of-a-gun... 'til I found a 'good' 6C4 (I
> think it was) oscillator tube-which settled it down considerably. I like
my
> HQ-180 very much-and would not consider selling it.
>
>
> 73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>
>
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