[rescue] radio

[Fogg, James]

Cool. The 46 is harder to find.

PICTURES!!

Oh, and the antenna..... Any long piece of wire will work fine, just keep it
from ground. Oh, and if you're not familiar with tube stuff, some units have
neutral tied to the chassis. This means that if your polarity is wrong
somewhere, the chassis is live.

Don't be surprised if you find some bands dead. This is the nature of radio
anyways, and without a tuned antenna it will be more noticable. At night, 40
and 80 meters should be hopping with broadcast and ham traffic (sorry, don't
mean to assume you're stupid, but I can't remember if you have a ham
background).

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: dave at cca.org [mailto:dave at cca.org]
~ Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:16 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] radio
~ 
~ 
~ I just scored a 1940s short wave radio off the curb.
~ 
~ "Hallicrafters SX-42", if that means anything to anyone.
~ (I know nothing about radio.)
~ 
~ All the tubes are in place, and it passes the smoke test.
~ Gorgeous front panel on it. I even got the speaker it originally
~ came with.
~ 
~ As soon as I can find something to use as an antenna, I'll
~ know if it's functional...
~ 
~ I think this is going to wind up in a rack between my
~ Suns and my cisco.... :-)
~ 
~ ------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- 
~ http://www.cca.org ------
~ ---------------------- "It's something to do." Cerebus 
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