S-38 vs. HW-16

[Dick Blaney]

Besides, at the end of WW2, Bill Halligan probably got more high
shcool kids, (like me), set up with an afordable receiver for a
starter unit for budding Hams and SWL than any other manufacturer with
the good 'ole S38.  I still have mine, and turn it on periodically,
with an isolation transformer, of course, just to remember what it was
back in High School.  I bought it new fropm Concord Radio Co. in 1946
or 47.  There was nothing that would compare to it back then unless
you spent at least 3 times the money.  A little hard to do on yard
mowing and paper route money, at least for me.  It still has a place
in MY heart, and I can't beleive anyone would try to compare it with
something like a regen, or something made 30 years later.
73 de
Dick, WB8MHE
wb8mhe at bright.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley S. Stone <nb9m at RELIABLE-NET.NET>
To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Date: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: S-38 vs. HW-16


>Aw, come now!  I never thought I'd live to see the day that someone
would
>say that a regen would "run circles around" a true superhet.  As if
that
>claim were by itself amazing, the S-38 was quite sensitive.  It
wasn't very
>stable, and had problems with selectivity and images (especially at
higher
>frequencies.)   Will the claim now be made that the regenerative was
also
>stable and selective?
>    73
>    Brad, NB9M
>    webmaster at hallicrafters.org
>    www.hallicrafters.org
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sandy Blaize <ebjr at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
>To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
>Date: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 2:12 PM
>Subject: Re: S-38 vs. HW-16
>
>
>>    The old S-38 or most of the simple superhets are quite deaf.
>>
>>    My one tube Frank Jones 1936 regen. receiver (single '19
>>tube) will run
>>rings around the S-38 and have some excess!  Too bad no one built
>>a
>>scaled down shrunken version of the RCA "RAL-7" receiver!  Two
>>TRF
>>stages, regen. detector and two AF stages.  Excellent set, even
>>by today's
>>standards......if you don't mind keeping a "logging scale
>>settings" book!
>>
>>73,
>>Sandy W5TVW
>>
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