Did anything ever look better than those 1960s Hallicrafters receiver ads in Popular Electronics and Electronics Illustrated??But those sets were way out of my price range. I had to make do with a S-19 Sky Buddy that I bought for $5 from a repair shop when the owner never came back to reclaim. Those were the days, my friend.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Joe Connor

On Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 02:13:33 AM EDT, T. Scott Griffin <scottandalene@...> wrote:

I pretty much agree with Gary's comment that the change from the SX-99 to the SX-110 was a styling/marketing decision. I have recapped/refurbished both radios and they are electrically virtually identical. Hallicrafters may have been thinking about the competition from National in the mid-range priced communications receivers of the late 1950's. The NC-98 and NC-88 both have slide rule dials. However, Hallicrafters certainly did not abandon circular dials in later receivers such as the SX-117 and SX-122. I have worked on an SX-122 and it is a fine performing radio. Hammarlund, of course, paid no attention to these cosmetic changes, and stuck with circular dials all the way through to their HQ-180 series.?

As a teen-aged ham in the late 1950's I would have given anything to own one of these radios. All I could afford was an S-38B with a BC-453 as a Q-5er, and I had fun and learned a lot.?

73,
Scott
N6CIC