[Boatanchors] hq-170

[Neil]

Hi all,

OK... I cried as I read the blasts against the 170. That
because I hated to see a receiver that I had put on
a pedestal tumble down. I didn't know of it's flaws.

I was first ticketed back in the mid 60s while in
high school in Hawaii. A ham friend, who's father taught
at the school (and was a ham too), had an HQ-180. After 
school I'd walk up to his house and watch as he tuned around
the
bands with what seemed to me to be the ultimate receiver.
Passband tuning, wow. I had an SX-110 at home, and the
HQ-170 looked like God in comparison.

Now I'm back into hamming after a long long hiatus. I picked
up an HQ-170 on eBay a while back as a DIY project. Needs
lots of work, but I guess I'll still take a stab at it...
even
after the thrashing the beast just got on this group. At
least
I'll better know what to expect when it's tuned and tweaked
up.

Old dreams die hard.

73, Neil   KH6EAM

Neil Murphy
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