Cool Vintage S Meter
 

Anyone know about the cool external S meter now on ebay? It is supposed to
be an add-on for the Hallicrafters S-40 series. Has an old fashioned prong
plug. Looks great and matches my S-40B nicely. Unfortunately the bidding
is already more than I paid for the receiver.

Item # 5741129577

Cute, but I wouldn't have paid $100+ for it, either.

My website has an article ( http://antiqueradio.org/smeter.htm ) including
original Hallicrafters documentation for adding an S-meter to the S38, S-40,
etc.

Another article ( http://antiqueradio.org/magiceye.htm ) has instructions
for building a plug-in "magic eye" tuning indicator for the S-20R. Same
principle will work for an S-40.

Regards,

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

"Diane" wrote in message
...
Anyone know about the cool external S meter now on ebay? It is supposed
to be an add-on for the Hallicrafters S-40 series. Has an old fashioned
prong plug. Looks great and matches my S-40B nicely. Unfortunately the
bidding is already more than I paid for the receiver.

Item # 5741129577

In article , "Diane"
writes:

Looks great and matches my S-40B nicely. Unfortunately the bidding
is already more than I paid for the receiver.

Not too surprising. I'd bet the same applies to accessories for any RX that
was sold with *optional* S-meter, xtal calibrator, clock, etc.

I'm thinking of the Allied Radio Knight R-100 rx, and the various Hammarlunds
with clock options. Though I doubt a clock movement would cost quite as much
as a good HQ-180.
73, Mike K.

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