{"id":43290,"date":"2020-06-22T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=43290"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:27:51","slug":"listener-post-mike-stutzers-love-of-radio-began-with-a-hallicrafters-s-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/listener-post-mike-stutzers-love-of-radio-began-with-a-hallicrafters-s-120\/","title":{"rendered":"Listener Post: Mike Stutzer’s love of radio began with a Hallicrafters S-120"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Universal Radio<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Stutzer, who recently shared the following listener post:<\/p>\n

I started SWLing as a teenager. My favorite uncle gave me a Hallicrafters S-120.<\/p>\n

My dad hung a longwire under an eave and through a casement window frame into my bedroom. I marveled at all the AM international stations broadcasting in English, listening to everything from BBC cricket coverage on Saturday morning to hysterically unbelievable Albanian political news coverage.<\/p>\n

After college I could afford something better, so I upgraded to a \u201cboat anchor\u201d Hallicrafters SX 110. It had a useful crystal filter to improve selectivity, but it was still nigh on impossible to decipher a Ham on SSB.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Universal Radio<\/p><\/div>\n

Many decades later I bought a house on a steep foothill. Realizing that it was a perfect QTH for a Ham station, I got licensed and now am President of the local ARC. Here is a loving look at the original SWL receiver that got me hooked.<\/p>\n

Prof. Mike<\/p>\n

Boulder, CO<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you for sharing this, Mike!<\/p>\n

Mike’s radio story is the latest in our multi-year series called\u00a0Listener Posts<\/em><\/a>, where I place all of your personal radio histories. Feel free to submit your own by contacting me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Stutzer, who recently shared the following listener post: I started SWLing as a teenager. My favorite uncle gave me a Hallicrafters S-120. My dad hung a longwire under an eave and through a casement window frame into my bedroom. I marveled at all the AM international stations broadcasting […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,2262,3,305,43,4796],"tags":[2284,1269,4102,4122,8609,4082],"class_list":["post-43290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-listener-posts","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-hallicrafters-s-120","tag-hallicrafters-sx-110","tag-ham-radio","tag-listener-posts","tag-mike-stutzer","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bge","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4181,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-connection-between-hallicrafters-and-1940s-electronic-warfare\/","url_meta":{"origin":43290,"position":0},"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). 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