[Hammarlund] HQ-210?

[manualman at juno.com]

Does your HQ-225 have an actual serial number on the back or any other
identifying codes besides HQ-225?

Pete, wa2cwa

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:12:09 -0500 "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
writes:
> Yes, that's the one I want thank you Alex.
> 
> I was wondering about the shortwave version. I have the HQ-225 model 
> and
> what terrific band spread it has.  I finally found the narrow 500 Hz 
> filter
> for it, and except for contests, I no longer need it.  It's a 
> pleasant
> receiver to listen to, but I have my doubts on sensitivity on 28 
> MHz.
> 
> If you were to nitpick problems with it, what would you say?  Also 
> it's
> best features?
> 
> I have an ITT Mackay Marine 3031A receiver with knob tuning and LED
> display. That receiver and the other related receivers (with the 
> digital
> selector switches) had terrible blow by in the 8 kHz wide filter, 
> you can
> see DC voltage on the S meter and you can hear very high pitched 
> pink noise
> while using the filter.  The RF signal level meters are always 
> aligned
> wrong, no signal pegs the meter.  But they are steady as a rock, and 
> when
> you use the preselector, signals come way up especially on LF and 
> LW.  It
> also had a variable BFO which was a needed feature which has been 
> abandoned
> by almost everyone.  You can center a Morse signal right in the 
> passband
> and adjust the tone with the BFO control.
> 
> Just wanted to nitpick!
> 
> 73
> 
> David
> 
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 19:43 Radio AI2Q <ai2q at roadrunner.com wrote:
> 
> > David, did you mean an HQ-215?  If so, I have one here that I use
> > regularly.
> >
> > Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex