[Hammarlund] A wasted SP-600 - item 300303033101 - a sad specimen

[Bob Young]

There was a once nice National radio similarly ruined on ebay last month, I thought it was an error and e-mailed the guy and asked him why he thought it had been converted to SS and he replied: Because it was! 

Bob Young
KB1OKL
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> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:37:43 -0400
> From: Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] A wasted SP-600 - item 300303033101 - a sad
> 	specimen
> To: Meir WF2U <wf2u at ws19ops.com>
> Cc: Hammarlundqth List <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
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> On Mar 28, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Meir WF2U wrote:
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> > On the ePay site, item 300303033101, titled "Hammarlund SP 600 JX  
> > Solid
> > State Receiver"
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> > I could barely keep my breakfast down!
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> Other offended radio folks,
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> This is not the first radio that's suffered a similar fate.
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> I have here an HQ-145 and an HQ-150 that were similarly defiled.   
> quite a long time ago, I had a chance to buy these two and a BC-348  
> that had been "solid-stated" by some unidentified earlier owner. They  
> guy, I was told, had at long last become married, and his bride made  
> him get rid of all his radios.  Good thing, I think, if it kept him  
> from doing more of the same.
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> I have been unable to even put power to these radios.  I recently got  
> them out of storage and they are now "unearthed" after being buried  
> for a long time. I may in the near future offer what's left of them  
> here on the list. Likely someone can salvage what's left in them to  
> good use.  Kinda like being an organ donor with that little heart on   
> your drivers license.  The situation may be sad, but we do what we can.
> 
> Roy
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> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
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