[BC] Re: Octal based All American 5: The S38-D

Mon Jul 11 07:19:20 CDT 2005

I recently finished restoring an S-38B that my brother gave me.
Has the same tube compliment as Bob related. A fun single conversion rx and 
it now resides in my kitchen/office for occasional
listening. I believe this model would be circa 1946-47.

Chuck Dube
Amherst

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BOB MATZNER" <bobmatz at att.net>
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 6:19 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] Re: Octal based All American 5: The S38-D

>I had a S-38D.  I remember it was a birthday or holiday present in 1956 or
> 1957...my first SWL rcvr.  Tube line-up: 12SK7, 12SQ7, 12SA7 50L6...and 
> the
> rectifier finally came to me...it was a 35Z5...I was around 12 years old
> than...filaments add up to 121.  Covered broadcast to 30 Mc...in four 
> bands
> with a semi-non-calibrated electric (as opposed to mechanical) band 
> spread,
> CW oscillator, built in 5" speaker, stand-by switch and pin-type headphone
> jacks.
>
> One sleepless night a while back I googled Hallicrafters, Gonset (Young
> Spring & Wire), National, Hammarlund, Heath and of course Collins
> (Rockwell)...and Signal One (was right here in NJ, Franklin Lakes I 
> think),
> 'cause I remember their incredibly expensive, for it's day, super-duper,
> military-type-technology, beyond state-of-the-art transceiver.  There are
> museum/nostalgia sites available on the web for most of that stuff.
>
> Bob Matzner, K1IHY
> m/y Seaview
> Docked at Cape May, NJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of Phil Alexander
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 3:24 PM
> To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Re: Octal based All American 5
>
>
> On 9 Jul 2005 at 20:52, DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Phil the Hallicrafters S38-D  $59.95  Shortwave receiver was an  AC/DC
> using
>> the Octal based tubes.
>
> Really!  I don't know why I never got into one of those. Played around 
> with
> SWLing when I was 9 or 10 years old with one or two, but never got inside.
> What tube line-up did they use to get the 120 V fils?
>
> I did have an S-54 mounted under the dash of my first car in high school,
> because it would tune 6 meters. I had an old army whip with ceramic
> base insulator on the rear bumper. Had to go through all kinds of problems
> to make that set work when the car (an old '40 Plymouth sedan) was 
> running,
> and had to build an external PS for it with a vibrator.
>
>> My folks had a 1940's Philco Console with Loctal tubes but it had a power
>> transformer.
>
> Mine had a table model that I think was made about 1939 or 1940. I know
> we used it in the kitchen until some time in the mid '50's. Dad even 
> bought
> a Pilot tuner for it so we could hear the local FM station in about 1949.
>
> I remember enough about the Loctals to recall they had 7's to indicate
> 6 V filaments, and the numbers were not quite the same as the octals.
>
>> The large 12 inch speaker had a filed coil winding that would
>> knock you on your but.
>
> Heh, heh, I remember those from other radios. The Philco table model
> only had a little 5" cone speaker with magnet. It also had a radially
> wound loop inside the back cover which was pressed fiber similar to
> Masonite, but not as sturdy.
>
>> This radio had AM  old FM 30-40 mHz. and two shortwave bands.   Also had
> an
>> external antenna connection.  Playing with the shortwave in the  early
> '50's
>> got me interested in radio instead of being a train engineer.
>
> I think I was always interested in it. My mother blamed it on my pulling
> the plug of the Philco out of the socket zorching my hand in the process
> before I was three years old. By the time I was about eight I was taking
> old radios apart marvelling at the coils and variable caps that were 
> really
> something in some of the TRF sets. I wondered what those funny sticks with
> wires wrapped around the ends were. They had such neat colors and dots on
> them. Then, one day I broke one in half, and found the same stuff I'd
> gotten when I took a dry cell apart - carbon - now, how did that work.
> I found out, and I'm not sure to this day if it was a good thing or a bad
> thing. <ggg>
>
>
> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
> Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology
> (a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation)
> Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037
>
>
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