[Heathkit] Heath CA-1

[JOE]

I remember those!  I was just a young kit as a novice and couldn't afford 
one of those.  I had to settle for keeping a radio on in the 
background.  Being 11 years old, I was deathly afraid at the beginning of 
my ham career that I might do something wrong.  I got over this when I 
visited other ham shacks and found that no one else seemed to be doing 
this.  I got brave and stopped using the AM radio, I was going to be just 
like the other hams and be defiant.

My cockiness ended when I got a pink slip for thinking I was on 80 meters, 
but transmitting on 7Mhz (second harmonic).  I had my Johnson Adventurer 
tuned up wrong and was out of band in the SW broadcast band.

I don't see this items in any of the vintage ham shack photos, I wonder how 
many people really had one, or used the AM broadcast radio as a monitor?

73, Joe, K1ike


At 02:36 PM 3/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I am "sorta" looking for a Heath model CA-1.  This is
>the "Automatic" Conelrad Monitor manfactured during
>the late 1950s into the 1960s for use by amateur radio
>operators.

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