09-19-2019, 09:00 PM
Epilog
This evening, while you lucky guys were enjoying yourselves at the Basin Street Hotel in beautiful downtown Kutztown, I was going over the HQ-129-X's RF alignment for a second time. Now, I think it is as good as it can be. It is now back in its cabinet.
The Hammarlund HQ-129-X is an amazingly sensitive radio and with my outdoor longwire antenna, picks up lots of signals from the 31m band on down. And it is absolutely incredible on AM. This weekend, I'll see for myself what it will do on the higher frequency bands in the daytime.
The last two radio restorations I have done have been very satisfying. Prior to this Hammarlund, I did electronic restoration on an RCA C15-3 console. I didn't write about it here, but I posted some info about it at ARF mainly because I had bought the radio from Vince Milone (radiopicker on ARF) at the May 2018 Kutztown meet and I wanted him to see what I had done with the radio. The C15-3 is an amazing performer in its own right, and has the audio system to back it up as well. What the Hammarlund may be lacking in its audio section, however, is more than compensated for with its very sensitive RF and IF sections.
Yes, I think I'm going to enjoy listening to SW again with this Hammarlund...even though there are not as many international broadcasters on the air these days as there were in ye olden days when I was a teenager and was collecting QSL cards with my little Hallicrafters S-38D.
I am very pleased to have picked up this Hammarlund at Radiofest. I'm glad I brought it home. It was well worth the $75 I paid for it.
This evening, while you lucky guys were enjoying yourselves at the Basin Street Hotel in beautiful downtown Kutztown, I was going over the HQ-129-X's RF alignment for a second time. Now, I think it is as good as it can be. It is now back in its cabinet.
The Hammarlund HQ-129-X is an amazingly sensitive radio and with my outdoor longwire antenna, picks up lots of signals from the 31m band on down. And it is absolutely incredible on AM. This weekend, I'll see for myself what it will do on the higher frequency bands in the daytime.
The last two radio restorations I have done have been very satisfying. Prior to this Hammarlund, I did electronic restoration on an RCA C15-3 console. I didn't write about it here, but I posted some info about it at ARF mainly because I had bought the radio from Vince Milone (radiopicker on ARF) at the May 2018 Kutztown meet and I wanted him to see what I had done with the radio. The C15-3 is an amazing performer in its own right, and has the audio system to back it up as well. What the Hammarlund may be lacking in its audio section, however, is more than compensated for with its very sensitive RF and IF sections.
Yes, I think I'm going to enjoy listening to SW again with this Hammarlund...even though there are not as many international broadcasters on the air these days as there were in ye olden days when I was a teenager and was collecting QSL cards with my little Hallicrafters S-38D.
I am very pleased to have picked up this Hammarlund at Radiofest. I'm glad I brought it home. It was well worth the $75 I paid for it.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
