On 2017-Oct-07, at 2:39 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: > Good collection start Al! > What homed you in collecting Hallicrafters? > > We have various SW radios at SMECC but I was really touched to get > hold of a S-40B like I had in my youth. Now to put new power supply > capacitors in it and make it Fly. > > I imagine there are a number of folks on list that like radios too as > before we were able to own computer to do electronics with in the times > of old (50s & 60s) we ll played with radios, got ham licenses, > shortwave listened, got CBs or had a pirate neighborhood radio station!
SW is dead. The internet killed it. You can fix your S-40B but there won't be much to make it fly with. There are a couple international broadcasters left, but nothing like it used to be. I was an SWL'er as a kid in the 70s, learned a lot about the world. Voice of America, Armed Forces Network, Radio Japan, Radio Hilversum Holland, Deutsche Welle, HCJB Voice of the Andes, Radio Prague, Radio Moscow, Radio Peking, BBC, etc., etc., etc. Listening to the Cold War play out on the international airwaves. Pretty much all gone. Left between the static are a few religious broadcasters.
