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George Craig hath opined:
The thing about the HQ 180 I didn't like was the lack of accurate frequency read out and the radio woud drift... but it was the technology of the time.....GC I don't recall any of the '50s-'60s Hammarlunds as drifty, but then there are a lot of things I don't recall from that period. My 145AX, 170A, and 180AX hardly drift after warmup. As for readout, my first ham receiver was a Zenith Transoceanic. Not only did it not have a BFO, meaning I had to read CW from the presence or lack of a carrier, but the whole of the Novice portion of 40M couldn't have been more than a quarter-inch wide. The dial pointer took up a fair chunk of that. The Hammarlunds of the era felt like they had infinite bandspread by comparison. Interpolating to within a few kHz was plenty for me. Now, of course, digital has spoiled all of us, including me. But when I get away from my Grundig Satellit 800 and Sony 7600 and back to my boatanchors, I feel like I've gotten home from high school in the afternoon and it's time for some serious knob-twiddling. Cheers, Avery W3AVE Potomac, Md. |