[Boatanchors] You never know what you'll find in a boatanchor manual

[D. Robbins]

Greetings, I once found a schematic in a B&K manual!!!
Dave









At 10:44 PM 2/1/07, you wrote:
>Heathkit issued several mods/errata/bulletins against the DX-100. QST had
>about 20 articles on "improving" the DX-100. Electric Radio had 2 or 3.
>CQ had about 6 or 7.
>
>Since I'm a "collector of manuals", over the years I've found lots of
>strange and unusual "things" stuck between the pages. One strange one was
>a check from the US Government to a Private in the Army for 10 cents.
>Can't remember if the date on the check was 1949 or 1952 but it was one
>of the two. In some Gonset manuals, I found the actual picture proofs
>that were used for some magazine advertising or at least that's what was
>marked on them. I've found letters/envelopes in some, letter dialogues
>between customer and equipment manufacturer, cut out newspaper articles
>from the 30's, 40's, 50's, coupons from places that no longer exist, and
>tons of scrap paper with notes on them. Still looking for manual that has
>the 100 dollar bill stuck in it.
>
>Pete, wa2cwa
>http://www.manualman.com
>
>On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:39:16 -0500 "Bob Young" <youngbob53 at msn.com>
>writes:
> > Sorry about this long winded story, but I'm a brand new tech (taking
> > the
> > general the 17th) and I'm getting a DX-100 ready to fire up that I
> > bought
> > last year from an estate in anticipation of passing the general. I
> > had
> > glanced at the manual but never really looked at it well. I took it
> > out
> > tonight to read it as the 100 is out of the case and I'm checking
> > the tubes
> > etc. I found an original letter dated 6-8-63 to the Heath Co.
> > stapled in the
> > manual along with the response from Heath dated 6-10-63 (like to see
> > that
> > happen today), from Ed Borezo Jr. K1SHH asking for info on mods for
> > this
> > transmitter to change it to a B. They wrote back and advised against
> >
> > changing it as I guess it would involve extensive modifications (or
> > they
> > just wanted to sell another transmitter) anyway I checked with the
> > ARRL and
> > the guy is living in Fla and is still active after all these years.
> > He was
> > originally from a city about ten minutes from here and I bought it
> > from a
> > city about an hour from here. He has no e-mail or at least it's not
> > listed
> > so I wrote him a nice letter telling him his old transmitter will
> > soon be on
> > the airwaves again (If I don't blow it up, hi!) and I enclosed his
> > original
> > letter, I kind of wanted to keep it but after some thought felt it
> > would be
> > selfish of me to keep it and he would probably get a big kick out of
> > seeing
> > his 43 year old letter to Heath. I'll let you guys know if he
> > responds,
> >
> > Bob Young
> > Millbury, Ma
> > KB1OKL
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