Early 1941 Hallicrafters SX-28 Shortwave Receiver

Hallicrafters PM-23 Speaker is not a re-paint, and is all original paint as determined by microscopic inspection. I suspect green grill color was for a store or trade show display. SX-28 has had the serial plate removed to facilitate an antenna port by some past owner, however, all hardware details indicate this unit to be either a very late 1940 or early 1941 production serial number. The key giveaway is the extremely faded red numerals indicating the amateur bands on the main tuning dial and other hardware indicators based on the engineering change orders at the SX-28 Notes website at http://www.radioblvd.com/SX28Notes.html thanks to Henry Rogers - W7HTR. Please Note the rich audio on the Hallicrafters PM-23 Speaker, hearing Christmas 2008 music, from WYFR , via AM station KEAR (610kc, (KHz) located in San Francisco, California.

All capacitors inside this 1941 SX-28 have been replaced, bad resistors replaced, and the receiver has been fully aligned to provide top performance (better techs naturally can improve upon performance). It receives clearly, RF shortwave stations on all bands, even the highest band at 21-42 mc (MHz).


Listen to and enjoy Radio was as it would have been heard back, then over 57 years ago.

radiodad2008

Category:

Science & Technology

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• shortwave
• WYFR
• SX-28
• Hallicrafters
• radio
• receiver
• valve
• DX
• ham
• SX-28A
• Christmas
• music
• Jesus
• Christian

[decadyne]

Beautiful radio. I just got a sx-99. it's in basically great condition, except for the layer of dusk on the inside. do you have any recommendations/methods/ideas on how to clean carefully?

[radiodad2008]

Use some canned air or light air compressor with a nozzle, lightly blow and brush with a soft paintbrush. For harder stuff I use a toothbrush. Don't use cleaners unless you have to. If you do, I use Simple Green sprayed on a toothbrush, then wipe clean. Clean all the tube pins and sockets carefully with a deoxidizer and cotton swab. Test and or replace the filter caps before you power on. There is some good info on internet about this if you search. Nice find! Good luck!

[zeeroken]

is het tekoop?

[radiodad2008]

Sorry, Didn't quite understand your question.

[jsclark1967]

A friend found and is restoring a Hallicrafters Super Skyrider SX-28. Any idea where we might find a Hallicrafters PM-23 Speaker for sale?

[radiodad2008]

@jsclark1967

Try ebay.com

They come up pretty regularly there.

[mnpd007]

We've all had equipment we wish we'd never got rid of.  For me, it's this radio. I owned one over 30-years ago back when they could be picked up for a little of nothing, re-capped, realigned, the occasional tube replaced, and used for many more years.

[G0OMH]

Beautiful receiver.

73 Peter.

[SLUGGER3890]

Good video, arigatou from Japan.

73 JR1DQH

[RIDDICKorigional]

Damn thats beautiful!!!

[G0IFI]

What a beautiful RX. You can tell how much it's been appreciated over the years.

[joernone]

Gosh, that's a great-looking and terrific-sounding receiver. Someday I'll own one. Thank you. I really and truly appreciate you showing it.

Regards,

John