I wonder how many of these beasties Hallicrafters sold? I saw one in the flesh during my many visits to the Station KFAR Transmitter Site on Farmers' Loop Road near Fairbanks, AK when I was a sub-teen. KFAR went on the air around 1940, and probably used the dual-diversity receiver to get information from Stateside before the war and the Signal Corps' provision of communication...at the time, the back-country telephone WIRE (singular) ran on stick tripods through the muskeg along the Richardson "Highway," and of course the Alcan Highway did not exist.
John Ragle -- W1ZI (ex-KL7PM) ===== On 7/11/2011 1:57 PM, Anthony Simons wrote: > While waiting on your Elecraft kit you might want to read up on a dual > diversity receiver. Radio Shack had the Hallicrafter Skyrider with dual > diversity receiver that had Infinite Adjacent Channel Rejection on page > two of their 1939 catalog! Is there truly anything new in electronics? > See it here: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1939/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
