Every Halli I've ever seen was rather crudely built. The front panels
may be nice but the wiring looks kind of amateurish compared to a
Fender amp or a MacIntosh from the same era.

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:48:31 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:


"David" wrote in message
.. .

What's wrong with replacing the paper electrolytics (as long as you
save the old bad ones for some insane person who would prefer a
confetti blaster)?


Sure, if the owner wants a well-working, reliable radio. But, at that
price, it's not really a radio any more. It's a piece of history, a work of
art or maybe a fool's investment waiting for the greater fool.

Frank Dresser

I own a Hallicrafters good working S-38 EB Radio.(it isn't for sale,****
You!) I was in my bathroom taking a **** last night and I happened to
cast my eyes out through my hall area and on top of them footlockers
crammed full of Radios and junk.On top of one of them footlockers (junk
on top of junk) I saw my Zenith Royal 200 AM/FM (personally,in my
opinion,Zenith never did build anything worth a ****!) radio.(it isn't
for sale,**** You!) I bought that radio for about $4.00 at the old (now
extinct) Goodwill thrift store on Palmyra Street in beautifull down town
Jackson,Mississippi (www.dogpile.com Cool Buildings Of Jackson)
about six years ago.The radio is in very (I still say Zenith never built
anything worth a ****!) good to almost like brand new physical and
cosmetic (whatever the **** cosmetic is?) condition.The radio does work
ok,but there is not much in the sound/audio department and there are no
so-called radio experts in this here news group that can tell me why
that radio does not put out any decent level of sound/audio.I Guarantee
y'all that!
cuhulin

"David" wrote in message
...
Every Halli I've ever seen was rather crudely built. The front panels
may be nice but the wiring looks kind of amateurish compared to a
Fender amp or a MacIntosh from the same era.


Phil Nelson has some pictures of the insides of his SX-88 on his website:

http://antiqueradio.org/halli09.htm

Actually, I kinda prefer the rat's nest wiring approach. Lining up the
wires and components neatly almost certainly increases the inter-component
capacitance and I don't mind if they spent the money where it can be seen
rather than hidden away.

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser,them old tube analog Radios are the best Radios in the
World.Screw all of them new fangled pieces of **** digital so-called
"radios"! Hey,last night,after I took my girlfriend home,I saw an
article at www.rense.com about marconi and Nickola Tesla.In my
opinion,Nickola Tesla invented Radio.Stubblefield was a pretty smart old
guy in Kentucky too.Most upstarts nowdays don't know **** about Radio.
cuhulin

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:23:33 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:


"David" wrote in message
.. .
Every Halli I've ever seen was rather crudely built. The front panels
may be nice but the wiring looks kind of amateurish compared to a
Fender amp or a MacIntosh from the same era.


Phil Nelson has some pictures of the insides of his SX-88 on his website:

http://antiqueradio.org/halli09.htm

Actually, I kinda prefer the rat's nest wiring approach. Lining up the
wires and components neatly almost certainly increases the inter-component
capacitance and I don't mind if they spent the money where it can be seen
rather than hidden away.

Frank Dresser


I'm not advocating right-angle dress for RF point-to-point wiring,
Just the stripping and soldering on some Hallis looks quite sloppy.
The bandswitch frightens me away from them more than anything else.

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:57:16 -0500, wrote:

I own a Hallicrafters good working S-38 EB Radio.(it isn't for sale,****
You!) I was in my bathroom taking a **** last night and I happened to
cast my eyes out through my hall area and on top of them footlockers
crammed full of Radios and junk.On top of one of them footlockers (junk
on top of junk) I saw my Zenith Royal 200 AM/FM (personally,in my
opinion,Zenith never did build anything worth a ****!) radio.(it isn't
for sale,**** You!) I bought that radio for about $4.00 at the old (now
extinct) Goodwill thrift store on Palmyra Street in beautifull down town
Jackson,Mississippi (www.dogpile.com Cool Buildings Of Jackson)
about six years ago.The radio is in very (I still say Zenith never built
anything worth a ****!) good to almost like brand new physical and
cosmetic (whatever the **** cosmetic is?) condition.The radio does work
ok,but there is not much in the sound/audio department and there are no
so-called radio experts in this here news group that can tell me why
that radio does not put out any decent level of sound/audio.I Guarantee
y'all that!
cuhulin

Get a schematic (or draw one yourself) and start injecting signals at
the AF output section, checking for gain through the active devices.
Work your way back through the detector, IF, to the antenna.

Is it a tube radio? Test the tubes. With a tester if you got one,
otherwise by sustitutuion.

In article
,
"Frank Dresser" wrote:

"David" wrote in message
...
Every Halli I've ever seen was rather crudely built. The front
panels may be nice but the wiring looks kind of amateurish compared
to a Fender amp or a MacIntosh from the same era.


Phil Nelson has some pictures of the insides of his SX-88 on his
website:

http://antiqueradio.org/halli09.htm

Actually, I kinda prefer the rat's nest wiring approach. Lining up
the wires and components neatly almost certainly increases the
inter-component capacitance and I don't mind if they spent the money
where it can be seen rather than hidden away.

The straight line point to point is the shortest distance between,
which the axial components must reach. This is done to reduce the
inductance of the path and yes if the paths are not parallel to each
other then mutual inductance is also reduced between them. If the
parasitic inductance of the component paths is to high then the
circuits will not work.

There are many techniques to reduce parasitic inductance like grounding
rings around tube sockets. If a resistor to ground is needed to bias a
tube element then it is a short distance from the tube pin to ground.

The higher in frequency the circuits must operate the more critical it
is to keep this stray inductance in check.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Here's another SX-88 up for sale. Wonder how much this one will fetch.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4673&item=57696430 15&rd=1


As I am new to shortwave radio, why is this model of radio so sought after?
Only because so few were made?

In article ,
"Matt B." wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
Here's another SX-88 up for sale. Wonder how much this one will fetch.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=57696430 15
&rd=1


As I am new to shortwave radio, why is this model of radio so sought after?
Only because so few were made?

It is rare and it is a sophisticated model for its time. It can be a
good radio for use today if it is refurbished.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

My Zenith Royal 2000 (did I say Zenith Royal 200 in that previous post
of mine? if I did,I made a typo,it is a Zenith Royal 2000 AM/FM radio)
radio,a vey,very nice looking radio too.It is the same size as my Zenith
Royal 1000 Trans-Oceanic radio except it looks to me like it is about
3/8ths ot 1/2 incher larger from front to back than my Zenth Royal 1000
radio,it is a big heavy Zenith AM portable radio with a wide carrying
handle mounted on top of the radio.Maybe somebody can find a picture on
the internet of a radio just like it.I am looking at the schematic
inside on the back panel of the radio right now.It is an all transistor
radio and the chassis mounted inside of the cabinet of the radio looks
to me like the chassis is mounted upside down in the radio.There is no
jack on the radio for an adapter,it runs on batteries only,best as I can
see.Inside,on the back of the radio's chassis is a three way slide
switch for Rado,Tuner and Phono and to the right of that slide switch is
a jack for Phono Tuner and to the right of that jack is another jack for
Ear Phone Jack.On the schematic it says,Patented in Canada by Zenith
Radio Corporation in one or more of the following years:
1946,1949,1950,1951 (I think I see a little bitty date that says,1 30
59,is that when the radio was made?) On the schematic it says,CHASSIS
11ET40Z2 and stamped on the metal of the chassis,it says,8682290,the
same numbers are on a paper label right next to those numbers.It looks
like the plastic battery holder takes eight D cell batteries.I don't
know anything about how to repair radios unless it is oviously something
as simple as soldering a wire back together or cleaning up battery
corrosion.There is an old guy by the name of Otto about eighty something
years old who lives in Clinton,Mississippi (Clinton is a small city of
about 21,847 population five miles West of me) and he has been doing
radio repair work for many,many years.I guess he knows about as much
about repairing radios as anybody else does.Someday I am going to take
that radio and my big old Telefunken wooden cabinet table model
AM/FM/Shortwave radio and my Grundig wooden cabinet floor model
AM/FM/Shortwave/Phonograph radio over to his house and let him work on
those radios.I own a lot of old tube type and transistor radios and one
very nice little wooden cabinet table model tube type AM radio in
particular that I once bought from old man Thomas Burnside about seven
years ago (Thomas Burnside sells old radios and clocks and things,he
lives one mile West of me) and I definetly want to get that radio
repaired and working.I own a couple of very old external radio speakers
too.I can't even get to those two speakers right now because I have so
much stuff stacked all around them.One of the speakers is octogon shaped
and it has a cloth grill on it with a sort of a flower design on the
cloth grill,I think it is a Zenith external speaker and dates back to
the 1920's or 1930's and the other speaker (I can see them in one of my
junk rooms,I just can't get to them up close right yet) has a round
metal housing and a cloth grill with a sort of a criss cross diagonal
metal grill on it,I think it dates back to the 1940's or earlier.I wish
I knew how to do my own radio repairs.
cuhulin.