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

[Greg Mijal]

That's a great story Bob.
I find those Heathkit letters too.  I've found a few Hallicrafters also. And 
not one "Form" letter.
Boy have times changed!
For the best?
Our modern day equivalent is the angry telephone call to someone in 
Bangalore India totally disconnected from you.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
in sunny Feenix

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Young" <youngbob53 at msn.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:39 PM
Subject: [Heathkit] You never know what you'll find in a boatanchor manual


> 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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