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I finally have my new shortwave radio up and running

"Nathan" wrote in message
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I finally have my Hallicraters SX-28 ( circa 1944 ) up and running.

Congrats, I hope to have my S38 running someday.

Rich S.

"Nathan" wrote in message
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I finally have my Hallicraters SX-28 ( circa 1944 ) up and running. It
took me quite a while to find a PM-43 speaker for it. It receives very
well on a short ( 25 foot ) long wire. Can't wait to get a better
antenna hooked up. It pulls in many stations I would have thought
impossible for an old tube warhorse. It;s actually fun to hunt and
tune in stations using the two tuning dials. The sound is great
comming from the 8 inch jensen speaker. If you have not tried these
old tube shortwave radios from the 30's and 40's, you don't know what
you are missing. You also get to teep a bit of radio history in the
house as well. The SX-28 weighs about 70 pounds. I will post some
radio logs after I get a better antenna.

Phil Nelson has restored many radios, including a SX-28. Check out:

http://antiqueradio.org/halli12.htm

Frank Dresser

"Digital Rich" wrote in message
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"Nathan" wrote in message
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I finally have my Hallicraters SX-28 ( circa 1944 ) up and running.

Congrats, I hope to have my S38 running someday.

Rich S.

Phil Nelson has also restored his S-38:

http://antiqueradio.org/halli12.htm

So have I, but I don't have a webpage to show for it. It's about as
easy a restoration as a tube SW radio will get. If you want any tips,
feel free to send me an e-mail.

Frank Dresser

Ah yes... Real tuned RF stages in the front ends of those. That's where the
real selectivity begins.

Congrats!

Now, does the BFO in that SX-28 have enough oomph to copy SSB well?

Bill, K5BY

Nathan wrote:

I finally have my Hallicraters SX-28 ( circa 1944 ) up and running. It
took me quite a while to find a PM-43 speaker for it. It receives very
well on a short ( 25 foot ) long wire. Can't wait to get a better
antenna hooked up. It pulls in many stations I would have thought
impossible for an old tube warhorse. It;s actually fun to hunt and
tune in stations using the two tuning dials. The sound is great
comming from the 8 inch jensen speaker. If you have not tried these
old tube shortwave radios from the 30's and 40's, you don't know what
you are missing. You also get to teep a bit of radio history in the
house as well. The SX-28 weighs about 70 pounds. I will post some
radio logs after I get a better antenna.

I have a few Halli's and I really enjoy them. The SX-122 is my favorite.
I'd be interested to know how well your SX-28 works on the higher bands,
above 15-Mhz. The early Halli's weren't known for being particularly
sensitive on the higher frequencies. Try listening on the 16-m
(17500-17900) and 13-m (21450-21850) international bands. The best time
for these bands is early morning to early afternoon if you're on the
east coast. Also try to hear CB'ers on/about 27.195 Mhz which is
channel-19. Have fun.

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I finally have my Hallicraters SX-28 ( circa 1944 ) up and running. It
took me quite a while to find a PM-43 speaker for it. It receives very
well on a short ( 25 foot ) long wire. Can't wait to get a better
antenna hooked up. It pulls in many stations I would have thought
impossible for an old tube
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Yep Rich,
I'm the proud owner of two Hammarlund HQ's and a RCA Victor and a Zenith 'Wave
Magnet.'

I have plenty of digitals, but there is not one of them that can pick up what
my 129X with the Q Multiplier or for that fact, the 140X either can.

They love LOTS and LOTS of wire. Literally almost no chance of overloading
these boatanchors. Case in point, I can flip a switch and the 129X is hooked
to over 600ft. of wire. They are treasures for sure, and you have a piece of
it. :-)

The sound from a tube radio CANNOT be reproduced from anything else. The
closest I've heard is my GE P-780 I got from Brenda Ann, that audio is close,
but that's it, just close.

Enjoy it, if you get the chance, hook a digital freq counter to it unless you
have a digital radio nearby so you 'truly' know for sure what freq you're on.

If you don't want to run lots of wire, run you a nice sloper from Alpha Delta
(that's one of them I have.) You can't go wrong.

Enjoy your massive toy!!!!.

The sound from a tube radio CANNOT be reproduced from anything else.

That's why serious audiophiles use tube amps.

Real radios glow in the dark.

G I always enjoyed the smell of warm dust on hot tubes.

...they are more fun too.

My late wife, N5GIN, always preferred real radios instead of the appliances.
She always thought a real ham station should have at least one six-foot rack of
gear, even if it was in the living room. G

Ahh... I still miss Ruby (it's been nearly three years now). She was a jewel.

Bill, K5BY

Ahh... I still miss Ruby (it's been nearly three years now). She was a jewel.

That was a very nice and telling post of Ruby and your love for her. Thanks
for sharing, made me smile.

That was a very nice and telling post of Ruby and your love for her. Thanks
for sharing, made me smile.

Thank YOU, DX. You gave me a good start to my day.

Yep, we were together 52-1/4 years. (Sigh...)

73,
Bill, K5BY

Thank YOU, DX. You gave me a good start to my day.

Yep, we were together 52-1/4 years. (Sigh...)

Hey, no problem Bill, it was pleasure. I just recently 'lost' someone (wife)
VERY recently.....eleven and a half years. I can just imagine 52
1/4...whew.....gotta be tough.

I know this is the toughest thing I've ever encountered in my thirty eight
years, still not sure what to do. Just day by day and sometimes that isn't
working either. {?} I've cried more than I thought was even possible for
myself and it still happens, I don't know.

God bless you Bill.:-D

I lost my Janet after 21 years of bliss. It will be 5 years March 1. If
you guys need someone to talk to, email me. I know what you are going
through.
"Dxluver" wrote in message
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Thank YOU, DX. You gave me a good start to my day.

Yep, we were together 52-1/4 years. (Sigh...)

Hey, no problem Bill, it was pleasure. I just recently 'lost' someone
(wife)
VERY recently.....eleven and a half years. I can just imagine 52
1/4...whew.....gotta be tough.

I know this is the toughest thing I've ever encountered in my thirty eight
years, still not sure what to do. Just day by day and sometimes that
isn't
working either. {?} I've cried more than I thought was even possible for
myself and it still happens, I don't know.

God bless you Bill.:-D

DX: I just recently 'lost' someone (wife) VERY recently.....eleven and a
half years.

Oh my. I'm so sorry to hear that. You have my sincere condolences.

DX: I know this is the toughest thing I've ever encountered in my
thirty-eight years, still not sure what to do. Just day by day and sometimes
that isn't working either. {?} I've cried more than I thought was even
possible for myself and it still happens, I don't know.

It sounds like your lady was young, too. Oh boy. I do know exactly what you
mean, though. In past years, we'd lost two of our children through accidents
and one at birth due to malformed lungs, but losing my life mate affected me
the most. I just made a point of getting through the twelve stages of grief as
fast as possible, making new memories while cherishing the old ones. My/our
four surviving children have been great comfort. After all, they lost their
mother, too. They've been strengthened by my show of strength, I guess.

During the rest of the year (2001), I made a few road and rail trips, to visit
out-of-town kids and Ruby's sisters. The third trip, a pure road trip, was the
toughest because I was alone in the car. Train and byway travel was one thing
Ruby and I liked to do, so, on that trip, I used different US and State
highways than in the past. (I don't like Interstates, anyway.) I made albums of
photos, with brief captions, taken during each set of trips. I then shared them
with family members, by mail when necessary.

The periods of tearful breakdown rarely happen now, after nearly three years,
but they do still occur, whenever a place or event common to us pops up. On
Sunday mornings, I try to get up the bayshore and spend a while parked near
where I spread her ashes onto the bay waters during a memorial service for her.

My house is little changed from the way it was when Ruby was alive. Only when I
adapt one of my own housekeeping or cooking techniques does anything change or
get added. Because she was an amateur chef during the good times and a kitchen
MacGyver during the bad, I've become a good cook because I paid attention to
what she did -- from afar. G

Gregory: I lost my Janet after 21 years of bliss. It will be 5 years March
1. If you guys need someone to talk to, email me. I know what you are going
through.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, too. Thank you very much for the offer. And I
offer that to DX. Just give me a shout via e-mail.

Ruby died in my arms early on her 69th birthday. It was sudden. Although she
had Type II diabetes and colon cancer, which conflict regarding diet, her death
was due to a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Due to continued loss of blood. she had
become bedridden but under wonderful at-home hospice care. The docs, including
one "specialist" thought the loss was due to the cancer. (Ruby wouldn't and I
won't take blood. It's not a religious thing, either.)

Her doctor had given her only a few weeks to live, so, while she was still
mobile, there was a two-week Irish wake around the house as family members and
friends came to visit, staying at a local motel, when necessary. She also
planned her memorial service then.

The docs had overlooked the aneurysm detected by a CaT scan and shown in the
report. They were concentrating on the cancer. Even our nurse daughter and I
overlooked that aneurysm in the CaT report. But when Ruby died, I, as an
ex-REMT, knew it was from severe shock. So I looked in the report and found the
cause. Our daughter confirmed the cause, and Ruby's doctor accepted the rupture
(resulting in hemogenic shock) as the cause of death. (In my county, unless
foul play is suspected, an autopsy isn't required when a doctor isn't present.)

Unless they are laying on an operating table, there's no saving a person whose
aorta ruptures, a common cause of death in auto accidents. But she had and I
have medical directives to not resuscitate, anyway. We're not afraid of dying.
It's the dying process that we dread(ed). Whenever I leave the house, I carry
my papers in a pouch hanging from my neck (and under my outer shirt).

I know this is off topic, but it's just one thread, and we're not spamming. And
we are all SWLs. :-)

Vy 73,
Bill, K5BY
SE Texas

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Bill:

My most sincere condolences to you. My wife and I are 53/52, and
"young" for our age in excellent health, but we nonetheless have reached
that point in life where we find ourselves pondering the most horrific
question: "What if I go before my mate? Or vice versa?"

Sue and I have been married 30 years come July. Unless accident or
the like takes us simultaneously, one of us will have to face that
horror some day. I can think of no way to end save a repeat of my
opening line: My most sincere condolences to you.

Tony

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