[Boatanchors] Check out this radio on Ebay

[Mike WE0H]

Patchwork final product & the eBay suckers are bidding it up...There are 
audiofools these days, now is there such thing as hamfools also?  hi hi...

Mike
WE0H


jeremy-ca wrote:
> 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