On Sep 12, 10:18*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:33:14 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Sep 12, 8:38*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/qb7cs3

And as it happens, I know somebody who wants to get rid of a
Hammerlund HQ-180A.

Hmmmmm....

I bet you could heat a room with it!

I remember my grandpa used to listen to short wave quite a bit, and he
had an old tube Hallicrafter. *I *remember that the tube glow made the
wall look like it was on fire. I dont' remember much about it but it
sat on a small table facing a wall, and it had a couple of large knobs
and three or four small knobs on the front and a couple of meters and
a large sign on the back of his chair that said "STAY AWAY!!"

But one thing I thought was odd was his antenna, which was a bare
copper wire strung from their house to the summer kitchen in the back
yard.

I thought that was weird but I understand it now.

Heh - I know what you mean. *My maternal Grandfather had a collection
of early Grundig radios he had shipped in from Germany. *Being a
German immigrant right after WWI, he loved to listen to music and
radio "from the old country". *He had a wire antenna system that
rivals my own in some ways.

It's funny when I think about it - he was a "ward healer" in Milwaukee
politics, but when WWII broke out and we entered the European theatre,
he had to turn in his shortwave radios because of the hysteria about
German spies - he eventually got them back and went right back to
listening to shortwave broadcasts from Germany. *A little oddity with
that was that he was the Foreman/Supervisor for the GM engine plant
that made the blocks for Sherman tanks. *What's even odder is my Mom
was a USCG CPO (Waves) radio operator and was the Chief Operator on
Cape Cod during WWII and all my uncles were either in the Marine Corps
or Navy. *:)

I remember Hallicrafters - one of the best names in radio. Had an
S-120 that I modified for SSB by adding a BFO. *Still have it in fact.

Hammerlund, National, Galaxy, Heath, TR Drake, Lafayette, Allied
(Knight), E.F. Johnson, Gonset, Collins - all gone.


The "Kennedy" name brand rings a bell to.