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I used to have an Echophone also. I used to use it as a cw monitor
once I got a receiver which could actually receive ssb and cw
properly.
You really had to know how to tune the thing, especially on higher
frequencies as hand cap capacitence could really change the
frequency on you.
Don w6smb
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> I've seen several S38s, Steve; can't remember which suffix. They
> were all kind of similar - you had to be careful where you rested
> your other arm while you were working the controls!!
> Once I owned an Eccophone; it either came to be before the S38
> series
> or was built alongside of them. I forget the background, but
> Eccophone and Hallicrafters were somehow related. It was a pretty
> dead little ac/dc receiver broadcast to 30 megacycles (not
> mehahertz)
> in four bands but it let me listen to shortwave next to my bed!!
> My favorite Hallicrafters receiver was an S76. It was general
> coverage, dual conversion. But it had a problem in the second
> conversion stage where all the sensitivity would go away. I had
> some
> pretty techy friends look at that part of the radio and could
> never
> discover the problem. So eventually I traded it for something
> else. The Harvey Wells got upgraded to someone's homebrew version
> of
> a DX100 (with an external VF1), and eventually a Viking Valliant
> which I got for $100 from Allied Radio because it had an
> ibntermittent which blew line fuses at an alarming rate. They
> sold
> it "as is". A patient friend found a carbon path on the terminal
> strip where the plate voltage winding of the transformer fed the
> 866
> rectifiers. Broke away the offending erminals and I used that
> Valliant until I was finally converted, (kicking and screaming) to
> SSB. That was a NCX3 but the first ten years of transmitters,
> receivers and learning was probably the most fun.
> Pat, K9JAU At 03:06 PM 12/2/2007, you wrote:
>>Pat,
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