{"id":4063,"date":"2012-08-03T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2012-08-03T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:20:25","slug":"ultimate-gift-for-dad-a-professionally-restored-hallicrafters-s-20r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/ultimate-gift-for-dad-a-professionally-restored-hallicrafters-s-20r\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate gift for Dad: A professionally restored Hallicrafters S-20R"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hallicrafters S-20R Sky Champion<\/p><\/div>\n

On the subject of being reunited<\/a> with a special radio, I found this story in the Illinois newspaper, the Quincy-Herald Whig<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For David Nagel of Quincy, it was Father’s Day in August.<\/p>\n

The 81-year-old Nagel received an unexpected gift Wednesday night from his son, John, who lives in Texas.<\/p>\n

David Nagel had just finished hearing — and taking part in — a discussion about a Hallicrafters S-20R receiver at a meeting of the Western Illinois Amateur Radio Club, a model that had first piqued his interest more than 60 years ago. At the end of the meeting, Nagel was presented with the genuine article — a Hallicrafters S-20R that his son had restored and shipped to Quincy to surprise his dad.<\/p>\n

[…]David Nagel said he never thought he would ever own one of the Hallicrafters S-20R receivers again after letting his original model go in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n

[…]Over the past five years or so, John Nagel said, he had heard his father talk about his old radio, the Hallicrafters S-20R receiver and how he wished that he had not traded it in those many years ago.<\/p>\n

“I had a great time with that receiver when I was young,” David Nagel said. “It kept me off the streets at night.”<\/p>\n

Last year was when John Nagel got serious about trying and find his dad a replacement.<\/p>\n

“After beginning to buy and build my own radio setup, last May I found an S20-R receiver listed on eBay,” he said. “I decided to buy the radio and make it a gift to my father. I purchased the radio, had it shipped to a guy in Michigan who restores them. The restoration included the cabinet as well as the inside electronics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article at the Quincy Herald Whig<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the subject of being reunited with a special radio, I found this story in the Illinois newspaper, the Quincy-Herald Whig: For David Nagel of Quincy, it was Father’s Day in August. The 81-year-old Nagel received an unexpected gift Wednesday night from his son, John, who lives in Texas. David Nagel had just finished hearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,305],"tags":[1146,1255,1256,1257],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-nostalgia","tag-boat-anchors","tag-hallicrafters","tag-hallicrafters-s-20r","tag-quincy-herald-whig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-13x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22615,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/guest-post-the-story-and-restoration-of-my-hallicrafters-sx-42\/","url_meta":{"origin":4063,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: The Story And Restoration Of My Hallicrafters SX-42","author":"Thomas","date":"December 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Arthur Smith, who shares the following guest post: The Story And Restoration Of My Hallicrafters SX-42 by Arthur Smith As a junior high student way back in 1978, I had a natural interest in radios. 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In the scene, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) is using an \"old school spy method\" to find the whereabouts of Black\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1-1024x432.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1-1024x432.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1-1024x432.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16737,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/mike-ids-a-hallicrafters-skyrider-in-avengers-scene\/","url_meta":{"origin":4063,"position":3},"title":"Mike IDs a Hallicrafters Skyrider in Avengers scene","author":"Thomas Witherspoon","date":"January 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to my post about finding a glowing Hallicrafters radio in a scene from the Avengers: Age of Ultron, SWLing Post reader, Mike (AC4NS) writes: \"I put the pic in Lightroom and pulled it out of the shadows. It is definitely a Skyrider and not an SX-28.\" Wow--I'm amazed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1024x429.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1024x429.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Avengers-Ultron-Hallicrafters-Radios-1024x429.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4181,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-connection-between-hallicrafters-and-1940s-electronic-warfare\/","url_meta":{"origin":4063,"position":4},"title":"The connection between Hallicrafters and 1940s electronic warfare","author":"Thomas","date":"August 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my favorite ham radio blogs is that of John (AE5X). Like me, he's a QRPer--meaning, as amateur radio operators, we love making contacts across this great globe of ours using very low power...typically 5 watts or less. The challenge is fun, the medium is magical. John's also a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Early_B-24-Hallicrafters-S27-293x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":63038,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hallicrafters-1944-film-voice-of-victory\/","url_meta":{"origin":4063,"position":5},"title":"Hallicrafters\u2019 1944 Film, “Voice of Victory”","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who writes: I've fallen down a YouTube rabbit hole. This time a video that is part propaganda, part Hallicrafters ad, and part documentary. Pretty interesting how they adapted the radios to wartime conditions: https:\/\/youtu.be\/Jps0_2adUvo?si=YFrPkaVUloRHBrMT Click here to view on YouTube.","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WWII-Hallicrafters.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WWII-Hallicrafters.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WWII-Hallicrafters.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}