Thread: Firing up the Hallicrafters SX-110
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Old October 16th 06, 08:46 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Eric F. Richards Eric F. Richards is offline
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Default Firing up the Hallicrafters SX-110
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Most of the modern solid-state receivers do pretty bad with the new
long antenna though.

Some of the newer crap that passes as high-end HF receivers (*cough*
R75 *cough*) have wide-open front ends. I ended up selling off most
of my gear and hanging on to an RX-340 and two IC-R8500s, both of
which have tank-like front ends.

In the meantime, a BCB filter like that from PAR can help, also, a
step attenuator when having problems can help with the front-end
overload.


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