My first setup back in 1956 was a borrowed National NC120 and a Heathkit DX35.  I used them with a parallel 40 and 80-meter dipoles fed with a single run of 72-ohm twinlead.  Those days the pi-networks could match anything.  Later I returned the NC120 and borrowed a Hallicrafters SX28 from another ham.  My first purchased receiver was a Hallicrafters SX100, which I later replaced with a Hammurland HQ170C.  I really loved that receiver.  I replaced the DX35 with a Globe Scout 66 which covered 6 meters along with 80-10.  Then sideband came along and I bought a used Central Electronics 20A with a converted BC348 or was it BC342 as a VFO.  I can recall tuning out my carrier with a phasing circuit while monitoring on the receiver.  I think part of the nestalgia for the old rigs is that ham radio was new to us in those days.


73,

Dave, AF6Y formerly WL7CAJ, K7BNA, WA6QND



At 07:15 AM 4/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>And the Elmac AF-67 and AF-68 and their receiver twins, PMR6, PMR7 and
>PMR8 (these for mobile use) and the Viking Ranger and Valiant and ...
>
>Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
>Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:43 AM
>Subject: Re: Old Receivers
>
>
>> There were many more Hallicrafters models.  The 100 and 101 just
>happened to
>> be the most popular.  The first radio I owned was a Hallicrafters S-85
>> general coverage receiver.  HeathKit was also a really major player at
>the
>> time--there were probably more HeathKit receivers and transmitters
>actually
>> in daily use that there were some of the commercially-built rigs.
>There
>> were also GlobeKing and Gonsett, just to name two that immediately
>leap to
>> mind.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David R. Basden" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: Old Receivers
>>
>>
>> The major manufacturers in the early 60's were Hallicrafters,
>National,
>> Hammurland, and Collins.  As I recall, the SX100 (general coverage)
>and
>> SX101A were the Hallicrafters models, the Nc300 and then NC303 were
>the
>> National models, the Hammurland HQ160 (general coverage) and HQ170
>were the
>> Hammurland models, and the Collins 75A4 was the Collins model .  A
>couple
>> of others whose makers I have forgotten were the GPR90 and the
>RME4300.
>>
>>