I'm with Peter on this one: My grandfather (an old ham) bought me the S-120
when I was kid in the (very) early 60s. It was not a fun radio and
thankfully stopped working in a couple of weeks. He replaced it with a used
NC-125 with the built-in Select-O-Ject circuit. Now that looked like a
radio! I had a ball figuring out how to make SSB and CW copy 'better' with
that select-o-ject feature. The howl when it would break into oscillation
used to scare the &^%$ out of my mom.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Question for the Group... Shortwave Receiver from Hell ?

Q # 1 - What was the most un-favorable Desk-Top
Shortwave Receiver that you owned and were stuck
with using for a while :
The Receiver You Grew To Hate !
-and- What Made You Dislike It So ?

Hallicrafters S-120.


Poor sensitivity. Poor selectivity. Wouldn't hold an alignment.

Dial calibration was nearly impossible to get close on either end of a
dial.

The excuse for a BFO was only really good for generating heterodynes.

The only thing I could say good about it is that it wasn't the 'Grundig'
Classic 960.

In article , bdenley
wrote:

I'm with Peter on this one: My grandfather (an old ham) bought me the S-120
when I was kid in the (very) early 60s. It was not a fun radio and
thankfully stopped working in a couple of weeks. He replaced it with a used
NC-125 with the built-in Select-O-Ject circuit. Now that looked like a
radio! I had a ball figuring out how to make SSB and CW copy 'better' with
that select-o-ject feature. The howl when it would break into oscillation
used to scare the &^%$ out of my mom.

Hallicrafters S-120

Rat Shack DX-300

Knight Star Roamer

All sad pieces of crap, gathering dust in my 'wall of shame'.


Thankfully, my R8 with TTFD into ANC-4 and a Horiz Loop is all I really
need to have fun.

-j