HALLICRAFTERS HT-32B

[iw5ci]

This is my last restoration project

It was 70% cosmetic restoration and 30% electric:

I repainted the chassis, washed all the radio , lubed cleaned.

I have replaced 4 condensers, 2 tubes and aligned the radio.

It works great and now look almost new.

before:

[iw5ci]

after:

[w3jn]

Very nice!  That was my first transmitter and is near and dear to my heart.  Thanks for sharing!

[KM1H]

Agree, very nice.

Mine came with 24LQ6's hacked in so that had to be fixed along with a lot of dirt, cabinet burn marks, Mickey Mouse mods, etc. It now is used with a SX-115 and NCL-2000 amp.

Carl

[K1JJ]

Nice looking HT-32B.    I owned one in 1966 and made a lot of AM contacts with it. Even thought of getting another one or maybe an HT-37.

There are some easy mods to make it sound truly hi-fi on AM.  Just bypass the ssb filter and inject hi-fi audio into the balanced modulator directly. Set the carrier and that's it.

Good luck.

Tom, K1JJ

[iw5ci]

I don't' know it can be a good am trasmitter , as it uses dsb... are those mods documented somewhere with some schemes?

I have to say i bought the HT32B to match SX-115 receiver , i also have an SX-101 matched with a HT32 (first series)...

[W7TFO]

Kudos for an excellent job saving yet another treasure.

73DG

[K1JJ]

I don't' know it can be a good am trasmitter , as it uses dsb... are those mods documented somewhere with some schemes?

Chris, W2JBL and  Jeff, W2NBC have done AM mods to their HT-37's. Here's a link that may well apply to the HT-32B with some changes. At least the basic mod principles may be the same.

http://www.amwindow.org/tech/htm/ht37mods.htm

Both their rigs sound very Hi-Fi on AM.

It will give you somethong to start with.  Do a search here for HT-32 mods too. I noticed a few threads here too.

Tom, K1JJ

[w3jn]

You'll need to bypass the crystal filter.  Make sure you switch BOTH ends out.  Feed line level audio right to the balanced modulator and disable the ALC.  Instant (almost) HIFI AM.