[Boatanchors] Check out this radio on Ebay

[jeremy-ca]

Oh yeah, the NCX-1000. Nationals final lemon.

I was on the design team for that but left National before it was finished.

It was the final example of Nationals big is better boatanchor mentality at 
a time when the market wanted smaller packages.

Solid state, complicated to work on, and no optional filters to at least 
make it useable on CW.

Poor dial calibration at a time when 1 Kc readout was expected in the higher 
price range gear. Digital readout was planned but the NCX-5 assembly was 
"too expensive" and the cheap National 200 dial was used as well as the 
flimsy 200 style cabinet.

Transistor sockets made them easy to swap but gave the same intermittent 
problems as the HRO-500.

If only management had listened to the market surveys that were done, 
listened to the engineering staff, hadnt been on the edge of bankruptcy, 
etc, etc, it might have been a great rig. But chaos ruled, engineers were 
bailing out regularly in frustration and it was a patchwork final product.

Carl
KM1H




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Mijal" <bluebirdtele at embarqmail.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <national at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:10 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Check out this radio on Ebay


Want to see a cool radio on Ebay?
There are transceivers and then there is this behemoth.
Comments Carl?

Check this out: 360036772850

73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
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