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Suggestions for tube-type general coverge rcvr, not HQ-180
Well, I am beginning to have some doubts about the likelihood of finding an excellent-quality Hammarlund HQ-180 at a price I can afford. Certainly I am going to keep looking, but meanwhile I guess I need to come up with a few alternatives that I can "settle" for if, as seems likely, the HQ-180's have priced themselves out of my reach. I need something that is all tubes, and works well on SSB. I plan to use it mostly on CW but I need decent SSB performance. AM is relatively less important (it should work on AM but doesn't need to be a spectacular performer). It does need to be general coverage 500 KHz to 30 MHz. R390's and 51J4's would be good (but of course, more expensive than the HQ-180) but none comes with a product detector and so performance on SSB is likely to be marginal at best, right? I have looked at a few Hallicrafters SX-100's (that is to say, looked at their pictures on eBay... haven't actually seen one up close in at least 30 years). How does that model and other comparable models from Hallicrafters and National stack up? Did Heathkit ever make a general-coverage communications receiver that was worthy of the name "communications receiver"? I know they had one, I think the model was AR-3. I had one when I was a kid and it wasn't much. Everything else I've seen from them seems to be ham bands only, and mostly 80-10 (no 160). Any suggestions, places where I should start looking? |
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