{"id":1966,"date":"2022-03-30T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/03\/30\/mike-wu2d-looks-at-the-dream-sw-receivers-of-the-1960s-and-70s-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:58","slug":"mike-wu2d-looks-at-the-dream-sw-receivers-of-the-1960s-and-70s-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/03\/30\/mike-wu2d-looks-at-the-dream-sw-receivers-of-the-1960s-and-70s-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike WU2D Looks at the &#8220;Dream&#8221; SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDQpfBCh1zU?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, I really liked Mike&#8217;s walk down memory lane. I saw several of my own dream receivers: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>S-38E. Indeed, this little monster did add some danger to your life. AKA &#8220;The Widow Maker,&#8221; I gave one to my cousin&#8217;s husband so he could listen to what the commies on Radio Moscow were saying. He later told me that the receiver had given him a shock. I now have TWO S-38Es in my shack (two more than I really need). I have installed isolation transformers in both of them, so they have lost the one element (danger!) that made them attractive. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>HA-600A. I got this one for Christmas in 1972. The A model is MUCH better than the plain vanilla HA-600. I recently got another HA-600A and found serious deficiencies in the Product Detector. Has anyone else noticed these problems? BACKGROUND INFO AND A PLEA FOR MORE INFO HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=HA-600A+Product+Detector\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=HA-600A+Product+Detector<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>HQ-100. Got one in the Dominican Republic. Fixed it up, repairing damages caused by radio life in the tropics. Disabled the goofy audio amplifier circuitry. I now wonder if this receiver might benefit from the insertion of a 455 kc ceramic filter. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>NC190. Wow &#8220;Cosmic Blue&#8221; Perhaps this was an early influence that led to &#8220;Juliano Blue?&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>HQ-180. &#8220;18 tubes and almost as many knobs!&#8221; FB! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>HRO-500. Love the dial. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Transoceanic. Never had one, but built a BFO for the Transoceanic that W8NSA took with him to SE Asia during the war. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>R-390A. I don&#8217;t have a crane for the workbench. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Mike &#8212; that was a lot of fun. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I really liked Mike&#8217;s walk down memory lane. I saw several of my own dream receivers: S-38E. Indeed, this little monster did add some danger to your life. AKA &#8220;The Widow Maker,&#8221; I gave one to my cousin&#8217;s husband so he could listen to what the commies on Radio Moscow were saying. He later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/03\/30\/mike-wu2d-looks-at-the-dream-sw-receivers-of-the-1960s-and-70s-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike WU2D Looks at the &#8220;Dream&#8221; SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,103,106,283,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hammarlund","category-knack-stories","category-lafayette-ha-600a","category-s-38e","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}