I'd also like to find a working Hallicrafters S29 receiver similar to this one: As seen in a video on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/DOMNPVFMcb8 I THINK the one I had in England in the 1960s May have been green? Best regards - Bry Carling AF4K > On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Bry Carling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to buy a working R1155 receiver in the USA if anyone ever has > one to sell, with or without power supply. > I would even consider a non working one if it's in relatively good, complete > condition. > > 73 > > Bry AF4K > > Best regards - Bry Carling > > > >>> On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Robert Nickels <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 2/5/2014 7:51 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote: >>> the audio quality coming from that single 6K6 output stage in the CR88. >> I have to agree with you on that, Rob, plus it gives me an excuse to tell my >> AR-88 story ;-) I got the AR-88 for "free", but had to pay the shipping >> cost from a boys school in the UK, which obviously wasn't anywhere cheap. >> This was back in the very early days of the original BA List, and the seller >> indicated that the receiver had seen service in the codebreaking effort of >> WWII. So, without a shred of additional proof, my own imagination has >> always conjured up a vision of it once being operated by the skilled ladies >> of Station X...feeding intercepts to the codebreakers that helped win the >> war. >> >> But to my ears, nothing quite equals the sound from an S-20R. Not because >> it's anything special, but because it's the first shortwave receiver I ever >> heard, and you can't un-make that initial impression. While I was mostly >> confined to using headphones to avoid annoying the grown-ups it belonged to, >> I well remember the harsh buzz of the jammers, shortwave channel-marker >> recordings, WWV (when it was still in Beltsville, MD), and of course hams >> talking on AM in their own strange and exciting language. >> >> 73, Bob W9RAN >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Boatanchors mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF >> ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** >> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > _______________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
