[Elecraft] HW-16

[David Fleming]

My first rig back in the late 60’s. I worked the world as a 12 year old novice with a couple of 40 meter crystals and a dipole up about 6 feet.
David, W4SMT

On Sunday, July 3, 2022, 10:18 PM, Kyle Chavis <wa4pgm at gmail.com> wrote:

I guess you got off on a light sentence!!  LOL

I still have my HW-16 with the HG10B VFO. Guess I should under cover it
just to make sure it still works. Although I lost my first two log books I
still remember my first contact back in May of 1976.
73 Kyle, WA4PGM

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 10:01 PM Eric Norris <norrislawfirm2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The HW-16 was a great rig back then, with silent QSK and a good crystal
> filter.
>
> I remember getting frustrated one night, and I cranked the PWR knob past
> the red mark on the plate-current meter that showed the 75-watt Novice DC
> input plate current limit.  I had just turned 17, and worked 50 hrs at
> $2/hr to buy that kit.  I was going to get a QSO that night even though I
> knew the FCC would soon be battering down my door and dragging me away in
> handcuffs.
>
> Good times.
>
> 73 Eric WN6RVG
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 1:54 PM Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > > I don't know what an HW-16 is.
> >
> >
> > The HW-16 is a vacuum tube, 90-watt (maximum) input, crystal-controlled
> > CW-only Novice-band transmitter and receiver kit with built-in AC power
> > supply.  It covered the CW portion of only 80m, 40m, and 15m.  It was
> sold
> > by Heath from 1967 to 1976.  Its 1967 kit price was "only" $110, but
> that's
> > equivalent to almost $1000 in 2022.  Adjusted for inflation my full-house
> > KX2 50 years later was less expensive.
> >
> > The HW-16 was popular when I was WN5WGJ in 1968, but at age 16 I could
> > never have afforded one. :-)  Its long-term utility was limited by the
> > one-year non-renewable Novice license of that era.
> >
> > Mike / KK5F
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