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Come on Steve, no one's shack or even the desk is that neat.
The photo in the antennas is not the best, unless all you use is a wire. Very nice station. N8KDV wrote: starman wrote: LW wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3062660622 Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for the SWL on your shopping list. They made about '500' of them. There are about '76' known to exist. The question is what happened to more than '400'? I can't believe all of those are really gone. If had one, I probably wouldn't advertise it either. The pictures of the one on Ebay show that it still has the original paper capacitors, such as the 'Tiny Chiefs' and 'Black Beauties'. Since these caps' are notoriously leaky, should an owner take a chance on running a very valuable radio like the '88' and possibly damaging an irreplacable part such as an I.F. transformer? OTOH, would it lessen the value of the radio if it was recapped to make it safer to run? BTW- The SX-88 cost about $3800 in today's dollars when it sold for $600 in 1955. Joe Walsh (The Eagles) payed $10,000 for his. I guess he wanted it real bad. I wonder what he did with it? I believe he has at least 7 operating positions in his home. He gets into old radios, and CW. I sold him some FT-243 crystals a few years back. He sent me a personalized autographed copy of "Hell Freezes Over" a picture and some personal guitar pics. He's a nice guy, talked to him on the phone once too. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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