Greetings Ed!

 EV>> Does the Hallicrafters World Wide just use one 6V battery, not
 EV>> seperate batteries for Filament and B+ like some I've seen long ago?

 RW>> I don't remember. It has space enough for both, but I know I
 RW>> removed those when I got it since I didn't want to clean up a
 RW>> leaking battery mess later. It also has an AC pwr supply, so
 RW>> that's the only use it has seen.

 EV> A Search I made for Hallicrafters Worldwide showed me your Worldwide
 EV> at www.radiomuseum.org in Switzerland, that is a real nice site.

I'll have to take a look at it. Ahh yes, mine is the TW1000 radio...it's
black just like the photo, which shows where the battery pack went. That
feature is no longer with this set.

 EV> I learned the Hallicrafters Worldwide could use a 9V and a 90V
 EV> battery if it wasn't plugged into 120VAC.

That could very well be, as the radio has enough room in the cabinent for
those batteries.

 EV> I also Searched there to take a look at the Midwest receiver a
 EV> neighbor gave me, I'm fairly sure that the photo I saw was a photo of
 EV> THE radio that was the first one I had to listen to Shortwave
 EV> Broadcast stations as a SWL. -snip-

Cool, you can reminisce the info on that site.

 RW>> This one has a 'thing-a-ma-jig' in the back cover that plugs
 RW>> into something, I don't recall where anymore and it is wired
 RW>> with twin lead, so I imagine it is an internal antenna. It also
 RW>> has a telescoping antenna and the face of it isn't like any
 RW>> Hallicrafters that I rememeber. Its face is flat with 8 bands
 RW>> tuned the full width of the radio, switchable thru the tuner
 RW>> knob on the left and volume control on the right. The flip up
 RW>> top/face-cover has a world map on it and it gives you an idea
 RW>> of what was/is tunable in a 24hr format. It is on now, but it
 RW>> will fade and drift after an hour or so.

 EV> While looking at the two pages for the Worldwide on radiomuseum,
 EV> I used CTRL and the Scroll Wheel on the mouse to look at the space
 EV> the twin-lead wire comes from and I would 'THINK' it goes to a 300
 EV> Ohm Folded Dipole antenna in the space at the bottom of the cabinet.

No, if you look again, you'll see a red twin lead that is attached to the
vertical telescoping antenna, you see that it is plugged into the tuner,
on the right of the photo. There is a red antenna that is labeled
'Skyriyder' that has suction cups on it, so it can be mounted to a window
and it plugs into the same place as the telescoping antenna, which must be
unplugged to use the 'Skyryder' antenna. There is also a hole in the rear
cover to run that twin lead inside the radio.

 EV> The other photo shows that wire points towards the speaker, so I
 EV> figure the wire from the RF section has lost the Folded Dipole that
 EV> it once had.

As I explained above, the red twinlead wire and the red 'skyryder' are
antenna lead-in and wire wrapped iron core antenna. Rather than run the
vertical, I may plug the Skyryder in and mount the antenna horizontally on
the window, which faces North-by-East. Maybe there's more out there than
it receives on that vertical telescoping antenna. Thanks for the website
URL, I can use the info they have there. But, I'm not going to join, since
$25 isn't my idea of really needing that info.

 EV> A UHF TV Station on Channel 32 came on the air, and I made a Folded
 EV> Dipole antenna out of some 300 Ohm Twin-Lead such as what is in the
 EV> back of your Hallicrafter Worldwide RX.

I've done that before. It works very well. But a log-perodic would work
much better for what I want...all UHF channels, 14-69 at 40 miles (in
Austin)...

 EV> The Tower was 3 1/2 Miles from our house so I calculated the length
 EV> of the antenna was 19 Centimeters, so I cut off enough Twin-Lead so I
 EV> could solder the two leads on each end to each other and cut one wire
 EV> in the center of the antenna to connected some 300 Ohm wire to it,
 EV> the other end went to a UHF TV Convertor we got.

If it was that close, a long wire would have worked just as well. But at
least you got some antenna mathematics and building practice. BTW, that
should have been 19 inches...I have come up with a formula to make 1/4
wave GPs and multiplying the answer by 4 gives me the a closer length to
build a full wavelength dipole; 2808/Freq in MHz = 1/4 wave...I also use
2880 to give a 5% extra length to the GP radials...The antennas I used to
build went to the local San Diego HRO store and sold out within a few
days.  They always displayed a flat 1.2:1 SWR across the band they were
designed for.

 EV> A neighbor across the street heard about the TV Channel 32 antenna
 EV> that I made and asked me to make one for them too, I had GOBS of wire
 EV> so I made one for them.

Believe it or not, that also works as a CB antenna, which is my very first
antenna fabrication. The next one was an all wire ground plane, that was
mounted outside my 'radio room' on the second floor of our apartment,
c1960?...

 EV>>> I earned the Novice License 3 months before the FCC opened the CB
 EV>>> Service to U.S. Citizens. I was 16 years old and just bought my
 EV>>> Hallicrafters S-38E the same day my Novice ticket arrived in the
 EV>>> mail.

 RW>>> So, you're not so old afterall. I was going on 19 when the FCC
 RW>>> opened up 11mtrs to CB radio. One of the first 5 in town to
 RW>>> have a CB license.

 EV> Thank You! Roy, that made my day!,
 EV> My younger brother says I'm older than dirt.

Well, you are older than dirt, but at least you're still with us to enjoy
your old age.

 EV>> I'm 72, so you're 75?

 RW>> 73.

 EV> As Gabby Hayes would say, I'm a Young Whipper-Snapper.  
 EV> -snip-

I got a compliment from my doctor the other day; 'You're the youngest
looking 73yo I know!'

'Thank  you very much, I said, 'it might interest you to know that I was
carded (IDed for age) in bars, etc., until I was 35'...

 RW>>> Back then we were operating Heathkit 'lunchboxes' on 11mtr.
 RW>>> They had a tuneable front end, but a xtal controlled xmiter.
 RW>>> And, you could only have one xtal in the box at a time. And AM
 RW>>> operation only.

 EV>> I built a lunchbox Sixer and asked a friend to build a one
 EV>> transistor oscillator for me so I could put a Bud Box on the side of
 EV>> the Sixer and use a Mallory Rotary Switch to select from several
 EV>> Crystal Sockets on the box what frequency I want to transmit at.

 RW>> That was illegal for a CBer to do, but we did the same thing.
 RW>> It sure beat looking through a pile of xtals and wasting time
 RW>> making the change.

 EV> Plus the switch box kept you from opening the case to change a Xtal.
 EV> -snip-

Actually, the 11mtr lunch box had a xtal socket on the outside face of the
radio, allowing xtal changes on the fly. It was a cumbersome job of
keeping track of those umpteen xtals, so we fixed that.

 RW>>>> Since we're approaching April 1, here's a link to check out
 RW>>>> from last year's April 1.

 RW>>>> http://radioartisan.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/genachowski.jpg

 EV> -snip-

 EV>> I didn't see any caption, just the photo of someone.

 RW>> You have to learn how to back up on a website. If you delete
 RW>> the link to the picture and just leave site.com and click your
 RW>> browser's 'go there' command, you can see the entire page where
 RW>> that photo came from. Scroll down a ways and you see the photo
 RW>> and why it is linked to April 1, aka April Fools day.

 EV> Sometimes I have done that to see what was on a Page Up from the page
 EV> I was looking at when there wasn't something to click on to get to a
 EV> Home Page from there.

 EV> I Remember one web site I did that at, that showed me a picture of a
 EV> Very Angry Face, along with some text saying I didn't belong there.
 EV> It made my eyebrows raise up when I saw that!!!!!!

No doubt.


         R\%/itt - K5RXT

 On Ward's exalted throne, he is still seated on nothing but his big arse.



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