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Reviews For: Hammarlund Super Pro SP-210X

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Review Summary For : Hammarlund Super Pro SP-210X
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W8ISK Rating: 2021-01-25
Best friend Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
My friend Warren Sladky, W8CTZ, silent key owned and used this receiver in my home town of Cleveland, Ohio during the mid-1950's. He was a blind ham op who was highly educated and a friend to many hams, including myself. This SP-210-X accounted for many QSO's in the US and abroad. He bought it new and claimed that it had the finest tuning and separation controls that gained him a wealth of contacts around the world. Sadly, Warren is a silent key. Many older hams knew him through the club we belonged to on Cleveland's East side. My QTH then was 2981 E 130 st. and his was about across the street. His "shack" was in the 3rd floor attic and it could get very hot in the Summer. I will look for one with the external power supply this year. If I can buy it well, I would donate it to the OSU club here in my current QTH, Columbus, Ohio. Thanks for reading. Ray, W8ISK
W8ZNX Rating: 2007-06-22
good old receiver Time Owned: more than 12 months.
ive owned lots of
Hammarlund receivers

only two of them
did i realy like

one was the 210 X Super Pro
best dam pre WW II
receiver
ive ever had
the pleasure to own

traded it off
about ten years ago
wish i had not

don't miss the SP-600
i traded for a NC-183D

but i sure as hell
miss the old SP 210X

note to new age ops

I do not expect things from
this receiver
that were not expected of it
when it was new

Mac


KG6FWT Rating: 2005-07-01
Reliable old plowhorse Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I've had this rig for over 20 years. Great sensitivity and selectivity. As good or better as my mid-range digital desktop SWL radios (Sangean/Sony). I'll hear it fine on the "Hammer" and it'll be significantly weaker and harder to copy w/the other radios.

This BA is why I became a Ham. I got interested in SWL using it late at night w/a long wire out in the back yard. One night I was tinkering w/the antenna lead-in and touched the HV accidentally. Nearly blew myself and the mains to kingdom come. I packed it up (bad Ju-Ju) and started tinkering w/crystal sets that dealt in mV and uA instead. As a result, I began to learn how radios actually worked and met some "good Joes" in the local Ham club at Field Day 2001. They encouraged me to study and take the Tech exam and the rest is history! I'm active in my localclub and the "Hammer" is back at work in my shack, glowing happily most nights. I'll be buried w/it, just in case the Pharaohs were right!
WB6NVH Rating: 2004-07-24
Great receiver Time Owned: more than 12 months.
The prewar Super Pros are sleepers which are not widely appreciated and thus you can buy them for far less than more popular receivers (often junk) from that era. The original external power supply weighs a ton so it seems to always be missing from the ones I buy. If you buy one of these receivers, figure on replacing all the wax paper capacitors before putting it to use. One weird thing is that the early Super Pros have s-meters which work backwards...
W1GFH Rating: 2002-12-29
Best AM audio of all Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I am one of the AMers who swears by this radio. At 16 kc (or even at 8 kc) IF bandwidth, it has the rich, creamy smooth AM sound and warm tube overtones that you just don't get from most communications receivers. In terms of pleasant audio, I have put it up against an SX28 - and the Hammarlund won.
JAMES_BENEDICT_EX_N8FVJ Rating: 2002-11-03
High-end Audio Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
Considering the 1938 design, the designer was brilliant. It is almost unbelievable radios like this existed 65 years ago. The radio has a so-so xtal filter, however the mechanical coupled I.F. bandwidth control actually works! The 15 watts of high-end quality PP audio using triode connected 6F6s driven by a 6F6 could 'fly' in a modern high-end tube type stereo system. Good sensitivity with a good audio amps equals picking out the signal you want to hear out of the three on top of one another. Some AMers swear by this radio. A SP-400 would perform about the same- bargain priced as well.