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dxAce wrote:

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

I quit at $3500.00 ;-)
dxAce
Michigan
USA

I restored an SX-88 - finished it last year for a friend. Total redo from new silk screened front panel and dial glasses to total recap. Looked like new- have pix if anyone would like to see. It went on EBay for $7500. After being "intimate" w/ this RX for a year- I really don't get it. Mechanically, a nightmare (although not as bad as the RME6900) and electrically so-so. To each his own I guess.

Dale W4OP

"Dale Parfitt" wrote in message
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I restored an SX-88 - finished it last year for a friend. Total redo
from new silk screened front panel and dial glasses to total recap. Looked
like new- have pix if anyone would like to see. It went on EBay for $7500.
After being "intimate" w/ this RX for a year- I really don't get it.
Mechanically, a nightmare (although not as bad as the RME6900) and
electrically so-so. To each his own I guess.

Dale W4OP

I think much of the radio's current appeal has to do with the glitzy ad
campaign Hallicrafters ran. The SX-88 was also featured in radio retailer
ads and it was pictured on the cover of the Allied catalog. Although most
of the practical radio buyers of the mid fifties didn't think the SX - 88
was enough radio for the money, it's easy to imagine a young radio
enthusiast lusting after the ulitmate status radio. I suppose a few of
those radio enthusiasts can now buy the radio without worrying whether the
radio actually performs all that well or whatever the resale value might be.

Fulfilling a dream really has nothing to do with performance or resale
value.

Frank Dresser

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"Dale Parfitt" wrote in message
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I restored an SX-88 - finished it last year for a friend. Total redo
from new silk screened front panel and dial glasses to total recap. Looked
like new- have pix if anyone would like to see. It went on EBay for $7500.
After being "intimate" w/ this RX for a year- I really don't get it.
Mechanically, a nightmare (although not as bad as the RME6900) and
electrically so-so. To each his own I guess.

Dale W4OP

I think much of the radio's current appeal has to do with the glitzy ad
campaign Hallicrafters ran. The SX-88 was also featured in radio retailer
ads and it was pictured on the cover of the Allied catalog. Although most
of the practical radio buyers of the mid fifties didn't think the SX - 88
was enough radio for the money, it's easy to imagine a young radio
enthusiast lusting after the ulitmate status radio. I suppose a few of
those radio enthusiasts can now buy the radio without worrying whether the
radio actually performs all that well or whatever the resale value might
be.

Fulfilling a dream really has nothing to do with performance or resale
value.

Frank Dresser

Well written Frank. And add to that the fact that there are perhaps only
60 or so of the SX-88 known to survive , makes it a collectors dream. Hey,
I don't tell people what I paid for my Davco DR-30!

Dale W4OP

I have an old Allied catalog here with advertisements of Radios and
pictures of different Radios and I have three of those reprint Sears and
Roebuck catalogs here which have advertisements of different kinds of
Radios Sears and Roebuck used to sell many,many years ago.Somewhere in
my dinasaur radio collection,I have a Longwave radio (I think it is a
Longwave radio) that I bought at a Goodwill thrift store for about two
dollars.When I bought it,I could see there are dirt dobbers nest in the
radio,they are still inside of the radio too.What would a Longwave
(Longwave only,radio) radio be usefull for nowdays?
cuhulin