[Lowfer] Longwave Boat Anchor---S-51 Hallicrafters Seafearer.....

[Douglas D. Williams]

Nice find, Mike!


D. KB4OER

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Michael Sapp <wa3tts at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi All: Trolling e-pay last weekend I stumbled across this Hallicrafters
> S-51 Seafearer ,138 kHz to 13 MHz, had to snatch it up......price was right
>
> in amazingly good shape....hearing AM & SW stations with a 4ft wire and PC
> network coomon mode noise on longwave for first test----
>
> pulling a steady 30W .3A @ 115V on the variac and isolation
> transformer....still has the factory QC tag in place dated May 28, 1948....
>
> http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag19/wa3tts/IMG_2771_zpsc5d5b692.jpg
> http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag19/wa3tts/IMG_2770_zps41d993db.jpg
>
> Looks like I'll be trolling the 600M band for Part 5 CW stations, NDBs,
> and perhaps LW BC's with it this weekend.....
>
> May try the Hi-Z headphone out through an isolation transformer for some
> QRSS 3 or higher if the LO is stable enuf....
>
> 73  Mike wa3tts
>
>
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