On 9/9/2011 5:59 PM, Bill Hammond wrote:
I have nothing but praise for the Heath kits.
Same for me. In high school, I had a borrowed DX100 for a while, and
later built an Apache, FM tuner, and TV set. I recently helped dispose
of the estate of a neighbor SK, which included a late model
I grew up with Heathkit and built or repaired many of their products.
I learned a lot from them. (I would soon try my own hand at kit
design. Alas, the high price of 1970s-era TTL ICs doomed my digital
tach project.)
There was a Heathkit retail outlet at Grossmont Center, two miles from
Wayne Burdick wrote
snip
The mammoth was reasonably well-preserved.
Unfortunately, the best the team could do was thaw out a few small
steaks and serve them to the hopeful.
snip
- - Reminds me of a field-day recipe book from long ago, for Elephant
stew: First, dice one elephant . . .
Wow. I had a DX-20 and NC-125 receiver in my college dorm room. Threw a very
thin wire out the second floor window into a tree. It had to be loose because
a few times the groundskeepers spied it and pulled it out of the tree. I used
the receiver to keep track of club radio usage - W1AF. We
I also started out with a DX-20 in 1961. For me the most memorable thing
about it was the meter on the front panel - completely undamped. It would
rattle against the stops when keying. But it never failed.
73 Craig AC0DS
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Dear All,
Wayne turns out to be a poet, story teller and an engineer.
73 Doug EI2CN
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From: Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 00:57:08 -0700
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Regarding Heathkit
I grew up
To build a paper-route and push-mower novice transmitter 'kit', you will need a
1950's TV
set and an old radio or two. Always check the curbs when you go out to deliver
your papers.
The power supply will use the transformer and the 5U4 rectifier from the TV.
The audio
output tube will serve
Wayne, you spin a nice yarn. Enjoyed the read. (:-))
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
elecraftcov...@gmail.com
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Vic K2VCO
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Regarding Heathkit
To build a paper-route and push-mower novice transmitter 'kit', you will
need a 1950's TV
set
I've built many Heathkits since 1960. One in particular stands out
because it is presently still in operation 24/7 to this very day! In
August 1973, I met my future wife in a local gin mill (hey, it was a
CLASSY gin mill with a band). She was a schoolteacher who had trouble
getting up in
I was a young USAF Radio repairman returning from South East Asia making $350 a
month in 1968. The only radio I could afford was a HW100 @ $240 +$49 for a AC
supply. Nothing else was even close in price. Say what you may, I have
nothing but praise for the Heath kits. By the way still have a
Stan,
Wow - what a great story. A real pleasure to read something like this.
I've cc'ed Heathkit as well - they may want to ask you to use their story on
their web-site or other testimonial areas.
73's,
John W.
AJ6BC
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, stan levandowski sjl...@optonline.netwrote:
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