Steve and Richard? and others..

I am using a new computer and forgot my password so am replying by email again.

I guess I am responsible for hijacking? part of this thread … and I said WW2 [world war 2] which began in 1939 in many places in the world, and went to 1945; and I specified? the S-38D? meaning not the ?S-38, S-38A, S-38B, and S-38C, of which all ?seemed to use the Ecophone ?EC-1A/B ?dial scheme.

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An Ecophone ?EC-1 would match the dates of the war ?, [ I think Richard meant that] ?but not the boat anchor ?quality

An Ecophone ?EC-1A/B ?would be close to the end of the war , but A ?Halli ?S-38, S-38A, S-38B, S-38C ???is out of place ?date wise ,

I don’t pretend to know the exact histories of the ?above, but a ?Halli ??S-38D which I first mentioned ?is far out of place ?date wise ,and is not the boat anchor ?quality either.

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Steve… I think there is general agreement on your ?“hot chassis” comment ??but this topic ?really needs its own ?thread ,as there is far too many situations to mention here; ?just look at how an National SW-54 tries to prevent the hot metal CABINET.

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I used the term “typical wartime communication receiver” and hoped that the preceding ?“WW2” would establish the dates in question.

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I did not mention? that real film clips from the actual war time radio rooms were shown, and in the background were SX-28s , AR-88s HROs, Super-Pros ??etc, ?now known as big boat-anchors, and none uses a slide-rule dial as the s38D does , and they dwarfed any S-38 in every direction and in weight , and of course ?they were mostly ?built ?before the S-38’s ?,and ?long before the S-38D ,?

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however one has to acknowledge that moral receivers Ecophone EC-1 ??were made during the war ??

and separately, it is interesting how the EC-1A/B ?dial scheme/appearance was later found in the Halli ?S-41s? and then the earlier Halli ?S-38s .? But few thought ?these were ?“communication receivers” , despite the band spread and BFO

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Re: Richard’s ?comments..

Re: “Hallicrafters and others made fancied up broadcast receivers but not the s38” ??… sorry I don’t understand this sentence, unless you mean DURING ww2.??

The ?EC-1 should be right for that time.

Re: ?“I think this is just more sloppy research.? ?All too common in material pretending to be history.”??? I guess now you are commenting on the point I was making.?? I somewhat agree, but would not want to blame the researchers and i ?wonder if the directors /producers ?made the decision ?to grab some stock picture off the top of a pile ?rather than find/get something closer.? The S-38D was not shown for long , but was a large on screen, and out of place in the context of the program, cheapening the value of the program.

Gotta quit this. ?

?Don VA3DRL

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