Michael Black wrote:

But a lot of the old radios were lousy. Yes, if you spent a lot of
money you got good radios, but a lot of people were using low end
radios. When I got a Hallicrafters S-120A in the summer of 1971, I
couldn't afford anything better, not only was it lousy in terms of
reception (completely lacking in sensitivity, it overloaded too much,
couldn't receive SSB because the BFO was too weak, horrible backlash on
the tuning, and on and on), but for calibration it was like "well, the
pointer [which
was terribly wide anyway) is closer to the 10.5MHz mark than the 10MHz
mark, and even then it might not have been on 10MHz when the pointer was
on that mark.


Hey, I had the Helen Keller Signature model version of the S120a.

Other than crystal radios I built as a kid, I'm not sure I've ever had
another radio with that level of performance.