[Hammarlund] HQ-170

[Ed Tanton]

Respectfully, I disagree Chuck. Both radios do just fine on CW and SSB. 
They require a certain amount of getting used to, and there are certainly 
radios that perform better (but not THAT many TUBE radios); yet my HQ-180 
is an excellent receiver I have used for months at a time-including 
recently on CW, without the slightest difficulty... and that's w/o my 
NIR-12 Dual-DSP unit (that isn't hooked up at the moment.)

At one time, MANY (~1964) years ago, I had an utterly unsatisfactory 
HQ-170-A... drifted like a son-of-a-gun... 'til I found a 'good' 6C4 (I 
think it was) oscillator tube-which settled it down considerably. I like my 
HQ-180 very much-and would not consider selling it.


73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>

Ed Tanton N4XY
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