[Hammarlund] just acquired HQ-170

[William A Kulze]

Yesterday I acquired an HQ-170, SN is low 3000's. It needs a little care,
when first brought up on power only 80m seemed to work. Some spray in the
switches seems to have helped, I'm going to do some cleaning and aligning,
I think it'll come along pretty good.

Here's the kicker. My dad has been SK for a bit over 25yrs now. I have
said  more than once that wish I had half of the old rigs he had. After my
little brother graduated and went in the Air Force, he got rid of most of
it and retired from NY to FL. I never knew what happened to it. Recently
I've been looking at the old home of the father of one of my old buddies.
It has an old quad beam on a small tower. My friend's brother is living
there now and I stopped in to see what he wanted to do with it. I guess if
I can get it down and disassembled I can have it. He said there was a
couple radios in the garrage also. I went there yesterday and we dug them
out. A couple old CB's, one an old Johnson. And there was this HQ-170.
There was a sticker on the front panel with my dad's name, his call
(W2NVD/4) and a couple freqs! They knew each other (this is a very small
town) and I'm wondering if this might have been my dad's! There were no
ham Tx's, so I don't think my friend's dad was a ham. And the beam, it's
not on a rotor and it's pointed towards the south. I've met another old
ham in the area who knew my dad since back in the 50's and I guess they
kept in touch by radio after my dad moved south, it looks like this fellow
was at least listening in. I know my dad had some old hammarlunds. It
would be pretty wild if this was one of them.

I had to share that with you, I've been so jazzed over this, and it's like
a gift from the big guy upstairs.

Bill Kulze
KC2SUO