[Elecraft] Regarding Heathkit

[Bill Hammond]

I was a young USAF Radio repairman returning from South East Asia making $350 a month in 1968.  The only radio I could afford was a HW100 @ $240 +$49 for a AC supply.  Nothing else was even close in price.  Say what you may, I have nothing but praise for the Heath kits.  By the way still have a Heath keyer, coaxial switch and VTVM that work some 45 years on.  

Take a trip down memory lane here:
http://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/heath/heathkit.html




Bill Hammond
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On Sep 9, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Jim Wiley wrote:

> 
> 
> Wayne Burdick wrote
>> <snip> 
> The mammoth was reasonably well-preserved.
> 
> Unfortunately, the best the team could do was thaw out a few small 
> steaks and serve them to the hopeful.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
> - - Reminds me of a field-day recipe book from long ago,  for Elephant 
> stew:   First, dice one elephant . . . .
> 
> 
>> 
>> But back to western Michigan. My wife's family has a cabin in
>> Ludington, a couple of hours north of Benton Harbor. W
> 
> So that's where Luddites come from.  I always wondered. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> I'd love to see my beloved DX-20 transmitter, which hummed and sizzled 
>> and arced in a manner not described in the literature, and which 
>> struck fear into the hearts of
>> nearby TV viewers in my ancestral La Mesa homeland.
> I too started with a DX-20, back in the dark days of 1959.   Mine made 
> interesting sounds when it was keyed, but it never quit.  Still got the 
> darn thing. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
> - Jim, KL7CC
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