[GreenKeys] [Bulk] RE: HEATHKIT back in business - QST Dec 2015

[tony.podrasky]

On 11/22/2015 03:20 PM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
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> They want $149 for a transistor TRF radio.
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Well, I went back to the URL, and it's probably a nice radio,
but, again, who listens to A-M?

NOW - if they had put a band switch into it (or a simple toggle),
and added the coil/cap needed to put it on a shortwave band, plus
a BFO, you might get people interested in SWLing and maybe ham radio.
With coils/caps now the size of resistors, it wouldn't boost the cost
or construction work all that much. I built the 9-band Ten-Tec
regenerative receiver (about 15 years ago) and it is a small, little
box with not much in the way of components. Yes, probably too complex
for a first project - but it didn't cost that much.

I, too, am "rooting" for them, but as has been pointed out,
the era of "building & learning" has long gone.

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
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