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12-08-2007, 08:06 PM
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Trying to get the camera working...
My camera locks up Photoshop Elements 5.0 every time I try to download any pics. I think I'm finally figuring out what order I have to click buttons so the damn thing doesn't crash.
New addition...
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12-09-2007, 04:20 AM
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Sandy, it even smells new. All original Hallicrafters tubes.
I've never seen one this original and untouched. Everything works. The paint on the case is near flawless. The feet are perfect. I took the R-46B speaker off my SX-71, and this thing sounds amazing on FM. It's definitely for the casual armchair user, though. 15 minutes with no bandspread and stupid string-around-the-shaft tuning, and I'm ready to throw it through the window. It won't be replacing my HQ-180A, that's for sure.
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12-09-2007, 07:02 AM
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Well, uhh, if it ever makes you mad enuff to wanna kill it 'n' all, just send 'er to me...I'll teach it some "manners"...SX-62s are some of the PRETTIEST boatanchors ever made...I don't know if Raymond Loewy hisself designed 'em, but they're from that period when he was working w/Hallicrafters...Most of the rest of the boatanchors "don't favor much", as we say around here when something is ugly, & we're trying to be polite. They also sound pretty good, w/2 6V6s, something an R-390 will NEVER do. But you're right, they ARE "drifty", like almost all the old tube stuff is. AFC on FM would have helped, too, I guess it hadn't been invented in '47....
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12-09-2007, 12:28 PM
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After using it for a while, there's no doubt that the design goals, including designing the features for the intended user, were met.
The thing is flat gorgeous. I've never seen one with the silver trim rings before, and the paint on the front panel is perfect. The radio was intended for the "gentleman SWL'er", sitting in his paneled den, radio on a table next to his favorite chair, satin smoking jacket, briar pipe evenly lit, (Dunhill, of course!), tuning in the stations of the world. Pulling tough stations out of the QRM...no. Obviously without bandspread tuning is tough already, and the problem isn't that it's drifty, it really settles down nicely after it's warmed up, the problem is that the tuning is so imprecise. I'll give it the standard treatment that helps as much as is possible for string slippage. Get some violin bow rosin from a music store. It comes as a hard amber-colored solid, like hard candy. Put it in a ziplock bag and give it a few light wacks with a hammer, and small pieces shatter off. Use a small pea-sized piece and dissolve it in denatured alcohol. Using a q-tip, apply the alcohol/rosin solution on the dial string. After it dries, no more slippage. The audio is incredible. It has so much oomph. The bass is terrific. Even sports/talk radio on AM is a pleasure to listen to. When you get a good station tuned in, something like CRI, you can sit and listen to it like it was a local station. It sounds that good!
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12-09-2007, 12:59 PM
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wow
 that is one beautiful looking sx62a.makes me wish i'd never of sold mine.
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