[Elecraft] Regarding Heathkit

[John Westmoreland]

Stan,

Wow - what a great story.  A real pleasure to read something like this.

I've cc'ed Heathkit as well - they may want to ask you to use their story on
their web-site or other testimonial areas.

73's,
John W.
AJ6BC

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, stan levandowski <sjl219 at optonline.net>wrote:

> I've built many Heathkits since 1960.  One in particular stands out
> because it is presently still in operation 24/7 to this very day!  In
> August 1973, I met my future wife in a local gin mill (hey, it was a
> CLASSY gin mill with a band).  She was a schoolteacher who had trouble
> getting up in the morning because her alarm clock was unreliable.
>
> Never one to pass up an opportunity, I built her a digital Heathkit
> GC-1005 alarm clock.  It used those old orange-glow segment tubes you
> younger guys can't possibly relate to.  It worked in more ways than one:
> we got married on December 22, same year.
>
> That Heathkit has been running constantly now for almost 38 years and,
> infrequent power outages notwithstanding, the only maintenance it has
> ever needed was a new line cord when the original one dry rotted out.
> No other maintenance has ever been done -- nada -- nothing.
>
> We are still going strong too and often kid around that "If the Heathkit
> stops, we're in deep poop."
>
> 73 from Stan WB2LQF
>
>
>
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