[Hammarlund] HQ-129X question

[Richard Knoppow]

-----Original Message-----
>From: David  Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>
>Sent: Nov 13, 2013 10:08 AM
>To: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Hammarlund] HQ-129X question
>
>From reading the Electric Radio article last month the author said the line 
>that started with the HQ-120 all had an s meter with DB readings above S9. 
>My HQ-120 agrees with this.
>
>However the HQ-129X I have only reads to S9 although there is a slight space 
>above S9.  Plus the only part of the S meter is the actual scale the rest is 
>hidden behind the front plate.  AM broadcast pins the meter and some ham 
>signals do the same.
>
>Is this the normal for the HQ-129X?
>
>Dave K4JRB
>
     Its normal. I have no idea why Hammarlund decided to do this.  Hammarlund did a number of things that don't make sense, for instance why did they put the broadcast band on the outside of the dial and the highest frequenecy band on the inside, same on the band spread dial. Same thing on the HQ-120-X.  I also don't understand why they didn't add voltage regulation and temperature compensation to the SP-200 since they knew how to do it from the HQ-120-X.