Gets,

How about a picture of you personal units on the binaries?

And Henry Please keep us posted either RAR+P or on the boatanchors
thread/group of your choice.

Paul.

I just took some shots of the beast with I'm guessing 35 years of dust
because I found a page from ham radio magazine, a Robot ad with ham
frequency allocations for Nov 1972. The ad has about the same amount of
dust on it as the radio. The 65 lb beast looks complete and original
except no medallion on the front I need to find one or get one made.
Several pics going up on the binaries.

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73
Hank WD5JFR
"Paul P" wrote in message
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Gets,

How about a picture of you personal units on the binaries?

And Henry Please keep us posted either RAR+P or on the boatanchors
thread/group of your choice.

Paul.

"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in
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et...
I just took some shots of the beast with I'm guessing 35
years of dust because I found a page from ham radio
magazine, a Robot ad with ham frequency allocations for Nov
1972. The ad has about the same amount of dust on it as
the radio. The 65 lb beast looks complete and original
except no medallion on the front I need to find one or get
one made. Several pics going up on the binaries.

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73
Hank WD5JFR

One site I looked at while trying to find out more
about this beast stated the medallion was attached
originally with double-stick tape! No wonder its missing.


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Los Angeles, CA, USA




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Richard Knoppow wrote:

"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in
message
et...
I just took some shots of the beast with I'm guessing 35
years of dust because I found a page from ham radio
magazine, a Robot ad with ham frequency allocations for Nov
1972. The ad has about the same amount of dust on it as
the radio. The 65 lb beast looks complete and original
except no medallion on the front I need to find one or get
one made. Several pics going up on the binaries.

--

73
Hank WD5JFR

One site I looked at while trying to find out more
about this beast stated the medallion was attached
originally with double-stick tape! No wonder its missing.

I think Hammarlund did that with a bunch of its models.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Richard Knoppow wrote:

"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in
message
et...
I just took some shots of the beast with I'm guessing 35
years of dust because I found a page from ham radio
magazine, a Robot ad with ham frequency allocations for
Nov
1972. The ad has about the same amount of dust on it as
the radio. The 65 lb beast looks complete and original
except no medallion on the front I need to find one or
get
one made. Several pics going up on the binaries.

--

73
Hank WD5JFR

One site I looked at while trying to find out more
about this beast stated the medallion was attached
originally with double-stick tape! No wonder its missing.

I think Hammarlund did that with a bunch of its models.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I think the original poster said this RX had been in
storage for many years. Perhaps it would be worth searching
the area where it was stored for the missing medallion.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA




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W8ZR has a Pro -310 on his website. No medalion.

He mentions that the cabinet was wrinkle with black with gold trim or grey
with silver trim. Somewhere, I think I read that at least came out of the
factory in baby blue but maybe that was actually grey that had changed color
slightly or viewed under special lighting.

Note on the radio shown at W8ZR, that there is no medalion. It is possible
that one of the runs did not have it.

Mine does have a medalion, although it is some distance away right now. It
is the black and gold version. I do have the manual with a photo of the
medalion that could be used to recreate one. Someone with a bit of time and
artistic ability should have no problem getting something that is close
enough.

Let me know if you would like me to scan it. The copy will not be
particularly good, but should get you in the ball park.

73, Colin K7FM

I have an interview on tape with Frank Lester W4AMJ (then W2AMJ) who was Mr.
Hammarlund from 1955 to 1970. When he was hired by Lloyd Hammarlund (son
of the founder) he found the Pro-310 did not come close to specs. He and
the Engineers spend quite a bit on bring it "close" to apecs.

The reason you don't see many is that the turret costs $85 per unit. That
is what there is the box within a box. Hopefully the band switch cable has
only fallen off. Otherwise its a nice box outside and a real dud inside.
Lloyd put a stop to production after only a few hundred units!

Frank found that none of the Engineers were hams. Since Lloyd cut off the
funds Frank went to work to get some of the Engineers to be hams. He went
to work on what saved Hammarlund (outside of several commercial ventures)
and that was the HC-10/SPC-10 SSB/CW converter. Frank wanted to use crystal
or mechanical filters but Lloyd asked for alternatives (they were
cheap)which is the principle reason for the 60 kcs IF's found in the HQ-170,
HQ-180, and the HC-10. Lloyd kept the old SP-600 series alive by selling
the SPC-10 at several times the HC-10 price to the thousands of users.

But never fear, the idea behind the Pro-310 stayed alive in the guise of the
HQ-215.

Hope the Pro-310 turns out to be a great piece of History. Frank could
never say why the H emblem was missing from most of the units.

73 Dave K4JRB

Dave
Thanks for the history. The turret looks very much like a bigger copy
of the TV tuner turrets from the late 40s and early 50s. It's a good
idea but too expensive. I guess the emblem was glued with some pretty
sorry adhesive as I can't see any residue from where it should have
been. If it was poor adhesive and they were falling off there should
be a spare or two around. Wish I could find one.


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Hank WD5JFR
"David Thompson" wrote in message
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I have an interview on tape with Frank Lester W4AMJ (then W2AMJ) who
was Mr.
Hammarlund from 1955 to 1970. When he was hired by Lloyd Hammarlund
(son
of the founder) he found the Pro-310 did not come close to specs. He
and
the Engineers spend quite a bit on bring it "close" to apecs.

The reason you don't see many is that the turret costs $85 per unit.
That
is what there is the box within a box. Hopefully the band switch
cable has
only fallen off. Otherwise its a nice box outside and a real dud
inside.
Lloyd put a stop to production after only a few hundred units!

Frank found that none of the Engineers were hams. Since Lloyd cut off
the
funds Frank went to work to get some of the Engineers to be hams. He
went
to work on what saved Hammarlund (outside of several commercial
ventures)
and that was the HC-10/SPC-10 SSB/CW converter. Frank wanted to use
crystal
or mechanical filters but Lloyd asked for alternatives (they were
cheap)which is the principle reason for the 60 kcs IF's found in the
HQ-170,
HQ-180, and the HC-10. Lloyd kept the old SP-600 series alive by
selling
the SPC-10 at several times the HC-10 price to the thousands of users.

But never fear, the idea behind the Pro-310 stayed alive in the guise
of the
HQ-215.

Hope the Pro-310 turns out to be a great piece of History. Frank
could
never say why the H emblem was missing from most of the units.

73 Dave K4JRB