hallicrafters SX-71 AM/ham/Shortwave/bfo Receiver (CHECK IT OUT) This AM/ham/shortwave receiver has 5 bands, .56 to 34 Mhz on the left dial and then a 5th band that shows 47 to 55 Mhz on the top of the right dial plus a logging scale on both dials, main tuning and bandspread, who could ask for more, one of the best of hallicrafters, I have owned two or more of these and think these to be some of the best for ham and shortwave listening I ever had, but I don't have the room for such big tube radios ! I bought this receiver just so I could repair it. I cleaned it up, I replaced both of the glass covering the dials and they are a thicker glass than original so maybe they will survive shippment, all the sx-71's I have received had broken glass. I also cleaned the dials while I had it appart. I then decided to repaint the cabinet and top cover of the receiver, I first sanded it with a auto D A sander I have, then I painted the cabinet with a light tan, but actually looks almond, I used the tan because I had no black, but you can repaint it back if you like, the cover I repainted silver, it has some indents in it but nothing I could do about that, the face with the lettering I did not touch, so you have a black face, tan cabinet, and silver cover, color combination actually looks very good. I also lub every moving part so it would work nice. I cleaned all the tube sockets and checked every tube with my Hickok 600A tube tester except the 0D3, I didn't see a listing for it, but was told if it looked purple when lite up it was good, and it is purple. I did replace two tubes, I replaced a 6SK7 that was very weak, with a 6SG7 and I replaced the 5U4 because one plate showed to be a little weak, I will include the two original tubes from the receiver that I changed out, as one is a old Crosley, kind of cool having the old type tubes, put them on your ham shack shelf as a show piece, now everything works on this including the signal strength meter, sometimes the strength meter didn't show even though stations were coming in loud and clear, so I would turn it off and back on until it did show, sometimes the needle would just fall all the way to the right but turning any knob seem to bring it back, I didn't check this out as I can make it work with very little effort, signal strength meter is all the way to the right when off, so tells me for some reason the meter itself is losing connection at times, but as I stated has no effect on the performace of the shortwave receiver, meter is just touchy for some reason, but seems to get better each day of use. All bands work and receive well, the crystal fuction also works as well as the bfo. Has some bfo drift during warm up some nights, but most the time bfo stays stable as soon as you turn it on, sometimes takes 2 to 5 minutes to become very stable, I turned it on tonight and haven't had to ajust the bfo at all, the bandspread tuned the ssb hams in and hasn't drifted, maybe the air waves cause bfo drift some nights, like when signals are weak. I looked at the capacitors while I had it out of the cabinet and seen no wax capacitors and no wax filter capacitors, and the receiver plays awesome with no hum so I left all the parts original under the chassis. If your looking for a good shortwave receiver that looks good, tunes easy and picks up stations all over the world, then you found it. I played this on a short 2 foot jumper wire and G5RV antenna and both worked well. I will put a buy it now on this, but will be gone after the first bid, so if you want fast get it before the first bid. I will include a instruction sheet with the receiver. This receiver will require a speaker, most any will do. All knobs are original I beleive, the bandspread knob is chipped and the tone knob was chipped out in the center, so refilled the end of the tone knob so to look better. Last but not least the main tuning dial is off across every band, in other words, wwv for 5 Mhz is 5.2 Mhz, 10 Mhz would be 10.2 Mhz 15 Mhz would be 15.2 Mhz etc. how do you say that close but no cigar. :-) And the bandspread dial is set at 45 on the loging scale when wwv comes in, which tells me the set could use a alignment, or the red needles are in the wrong place, but don't see how as these come glued to the dial strings top and bottom, so I would say alignment would be the way to go. Chassis has light surface rust which should clean up, see the pics. I think that covers everything, honesty is the best policy. :-)UPS Shipping will be $75 dollars to the lower 48 states the rest pay more, may seem high but its a big heavy radio, and I don't know if I can get it to some of the zones in the lower 48 states for that price, if not I will pay the difference. PAYPAL payment methods ONLY. Happy bidding and no reserve. Please look at my other auctions. tr7heaven!
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