S-38D Surprise

[Brian Carling]

Is the model number a  5R-100 as you stated?
Or is it an SR-100
??

Thanks - Bry

On  4 Aug 98 at 4:53, Dave wrote:


> I attended the Fort Tuthill Hamfest in Flagstaff, AZ last weekend
> and came home with a bunch of "treasures", one being an S-38D (or so
> I thought!).
>
> Tonight, I put it on the bench and decided to fire it up as the unit
> was pretty clean inside, just a lot of dust. Radio came to life and
> with about 6 feet of wire inside my shop was pulling in all kinds of
> signals on the 6 and 9.5 mHz short wave bands. Went to flip the BFO
> switch to see if it worked and to my complete surprise their wasn't
> any! In fact their were no slide switches at all on the front panel
> - only one on the back to go from speaker to headphones. Looking
> again at the panel I discovered that their was no S38D marking
> either and it was not worn off. Went and looked at the Hallicrafters
> and Osterman books and could not fins them either, looked in the
> Moore book and nothing there. Went back and looked at the Dachis
> book again and finally in a chapter near the back I found it with a
> picture. The receiver is a part of the #R# Series and the actual
> model is an 5R-100, wrinkle black paint with a chrome dial bezel.
> Electrically it's an S-38D without the BFO and the extra slide
> switches.
>
> I assume it is somewhat rare but like an S38, not particularly
> valuable. It will look nice next to my other Hallicrafters oddities,
> an ivory clock radio, the ATCL-7 Atom and my SR-75 Transceiver.
>
> Anybody ever seen one of these?
>
> Dave N7RK
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