[Elecraft] HW-16 Re: Latest Elecraft NEWS

[Kevin Anderson]

Hopefully not to belabor this too much (or exceed a cutoff on the conversation), the HW-16 was not a transceiver in the modern sense of shared circuitry throughout, but was a transmitter and receiver in the same cabinet that shared the same antenna connection and had the necessary cutoff and receiver protections on transmitting.  The knob and dial you see is the receiver.  The transmitter in the radio was CW-only, rock-bound on 80-40-15 meters only when barefoot with just the HW-16.  It took the external HG-10 or -10B VFO (or similar grid-keyed VFO) to get you flexible transmitting not involving crystals.  The receiver circuitry was on a circuit board in one half of the case and the transmitter circuitry was point-to-point wiring in the other half of the cabinet. 

A used HW-16, joined later by a HG-10B VFO, was my first radio when I got licensed in 1993 and used for a couple of years until it got upscaled by a used Ten-Tec Century 22.

Cheers/73,
Kevin, K9IUA (then KB9IUA from 1993 until 1999)

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Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA 
k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com 
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