[Hammarlund] Hammarlund Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4

[Jon Teske]

 Re yellowed dials.  My new to me HQ-150 (apparently a short lived and not terribly voluminous receiver) does have what
I now think is one yellow cursor but a white dial behind it. I was going to swap it our if it was the other way around.  Then Hammarlund
went to the style started by the HQ-100 continuing on with the 110, 145, 170, 180 etc.  I have a 145 and a 170, both in working condition.
I don't even remember the 150 in advertisements.  I had one of the first HQ-100s, a Christmas present when I was 14 when I managedto convince my father that the S-38D they bought me (Christmas 1955) as I was awaiting my license.  Licenses took 3-4 months to
get, an eternity when you are 13. The HQ-100 was for the next Christmas (1956) and I had just gotten my General.  That also took 3-4 
months. The 150, bought on Ebay for the "right" price e.g. low worked right out of the box and some of the stuff I would have done such as
three prong power cord, fuse, filter caps was already done.  I haven't even checked the alignment and the dials are close enough for
government work.   I do have a Viking Adventurer here I could pair with one of these.  As a kid that was my 2nd transmitter (An AT-1 Heath
was the first.)  I used the HQ-100 into post college, ultimately with a Ranger.

Jon Teske  W3JT   And I didn't have a two letter suffix in those days with my initials  It's not a "vanity call either."ex- K9CAH in Wisconsin. When I moved east after college I was W3DRV. Remember you had to change calls in those days
when you moved to a new area.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: hammarlund <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 6:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Hammarlund Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4

Hi Richard,

Be sure you are sitting down before reading further.













You could temporarily connect digital dial or dials (horrors) and get 
your receiver checked out. Maybe even use it a little bit that way. When 
you get the new mechanical dials of course install them and set the 
radio up to use those. Then use the digital hardware for something else.

If you have no further use for the digital dials (assuming you do this) 
you can feel free to send them to me for proper disposal <sly grin>. 
Just a suggestion. I have done such things for temporary and sometimes 
permanent use. But not to a nice old receiver like these.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 3/23/20 5:07 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     FWIW, the dials on my 129 are not yellowed but the dial window is. I 
> need to make new windows, does not look difficult. I just have too much 
> going on to get to it.
>     Sometime I will find replacement dials for my HQ-120-X The original 
> dials have delaminated. Not fixable, have to be replaced. This set was 
> worked over by someone before I got it. Without tuning dials that work 
> its hard to know if the receiver works right.

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