My first real communications recemver was the hq120.

I got it used and believe it was made before ww2.  It wasn't too bad as
a novice receiver, but the images on ten meters were something to
behold.

If you weren't paying attention, it was easy to get confused as to
which ten meter band you were listening to: the real one or the image
one.

It was a lot like the hq129in front panel design, the main difference
was that it had different knobs and the 129 had far better image
rejection.

My first "new" ham receiver was the Halicrafters sx71.

It was general coverage and went up to 60 Mc, not MHz in those day.
<grin>

It was a really great receiver except for two thing.

It drifted like crazy and on 20 and above you had to keep transmissions
rather short or you'd really have to tune for the guy you were talking
to.

The other problem was that the dial cords had a nasty habbit of
breaking and replacing one of those things involved major surgery.  I
had to do it several times.


Don W6SMB



On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:13:37 -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:

>I never owned the HQ-129X but played with one in another person's shack.
>Also the HQ-120 which, I believe, was the version of it that came out
>before the war.
>
>Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
>Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
>
>On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, David R. Basden wrote:
>
>> There was also a very popular Hammurlund receiver called the HQ129X.  I never got to tune one, but I sure worked a lot of guys using them.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dave AF6Y
>>
>> At 08:37 AM 4/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> >As I recall the hamarlund models, they were...  hq100 general coverage.
>> >Its look a like but ham bands, 160 through 6 meters, I have one of these,
>> >was the hq110.  I think the hq170 was the general coverage of the next
>> >model up and the 180 the ham version of this one.  I may not remember
>> >these right, but sure about the 100 and 110.
>> >73s
>> >Butch Bussen
>> >wa0vjr
>>