[Hammarlund] Original HQ-129-X

[Richard Knoppow]

    The first ads for the HQ-129-X, c.1945, showed a rather different 
style from the familiar ones. The meter is on the front rather than 
being behind the dial escutchion and has calibrations for db above S-9 
the same as the HQ-120-X. I wonder if the pictured receiver was only a 
prototype or mock up or if any were actually sold. Hammarlund evidently 
found they could not build the receiver to sell for $129 and 
discontinued them for a time. When the model was brought back it looked 
a little different despite having the same model number, and, of course, 
the price was higher.
    The HQ-129-X and HQ-120-X have a couple of features that strike me 
as odd, for one thing the order of bands on the dials has the broadcast 
band on the outer part and the highest frequency band on the inner part 
where the compression of number is greatest. It should really be 
reversed and is on most multi-band receivers. Nonetheless, its a very 
good little receiver.

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL