{"id":6699,"date":"2012-09-18T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/boatanchor-dreams\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:30:00","slug":"boatanchor-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/boatanchor-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Boatanchor Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greetings Bill and Fellow Solder Melters,<\/b><\/div>\n
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Back in 1965, I bought a brand new HT-37 from a radio store in Pittsburgh, Pa.<\/b><\/div>\n
It had been tucked away by the owner for his own personal collection.<\/b><\/div>\n
He finally softened and sold it to me. The Hallicrafters HT-37 became by Big Dog for many years.<\/b><\/div>\n
In 2005, I fell on some difficult times and sold it. I regretted the departure moments after the exchange.<\/b><\/div>\n
Well, finally after lots of searching, the right unit came along.<\/b><\/div>\n
Here are a few pictures of my excellent E-bay buy.<\/b><\/div>\n
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I will begin to dig into the electrical status of the rig later this week but the unit seems well cared for and not abused. <\/b><\/div>\n
I will keep you posted. It will be happily married to my Drake 2B and Q-Multiplier after it passes muster.<\/b>Yes fellow hams there are still gems out there for your collections. Just wait for the right buy and then go for it!<\/b><\/div>\n
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73\u2019s Harv -=WA3EIB=<\/b>–<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span><\/span>to by WA4KCY<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Bill,<\/span><\/b>
I know you would appreciate this. Got an email this morning from a local ham who was getting rid of some “junk” radios, wondered if I or someone else could use them. Once I heard I got over there to pick them up. Among the usual, real junk was a Hammarlund HQ-110C receiver, in the original box and a Johnson Viking Ranger, also in the box. With all the manuals as well. The boxes are showing their age, the Ranger’s being not much to look at. I am told neither works and haven’t been looked at \/ turned for at least 20 years. What a find! They are very clean and complete, as far as I can tell.<\/span>
The plan is to restore them to pristine condition and, hopefully, use them in one of the local museum as a working station.<\/span>
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Mike Herr<\/span>
WA6ARA<\/span>
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Greetings Bill and Fellow Solder Melters, Back in 1965, I bought a brand new HT-37 from a radio store in Pittsburgh, Pa. It had been tucked away by the owner for his own personal collection. He finally softened and sold it to me. The Hallicrafters HT-37 became by Big Dog for many years. In 2005, … Continue reading “Boatanchor Dreams”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,59,176,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am","category-hallicrafters","category-hammarlund","category-old-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6703,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}