[Heathkit] Wow--SB-102 info

[John P. Cummins, Sr.]

Hi Ron..!

Well.. in the old days I wasn't trying to restore Heath gear.. it was 
more like old pre war Hallicrafters, National, Harvey Wells and others 
including a lot of military stuff like BC-348's, BC-610's and Meissner 
150B's and Signal Shifters.

Finding documentation for some of this old gear was really a problem 
back then.

In more recent years I have worked on Swan and Galaxy rigs and scrounged 
for documentation.  I have passed up Lakeshore and Multi Elmac gear 
because I couln't find documentation in the old days.

Most of this stuff can now be found somewhere on the web or doing what I 
did and asking a special interest group on their email reflector.

The SB-102 should be a snap.  There is a problem in the transmitter 
chain and I probably could have fixed it without documentation.  It's 
just easier in my old age to have as much information as I can to start 
with.  I don't have the rig in my possission yet and was trying to 
collect stuff before it got here.

Pickett, AD4S

p.s.  My brother is K6MYH (he was W5NIQ in 1947).

Ronald D Eveland wrote:
> Pickett:
> 
> As I recall in the old days the gear was new, and we just ordered the
> parts from Heathkit.  Sorry, I couldn't resist making the remark, but I
> often bought parts directly from the manufacturer, I even bought parts to
> home brew rigs.  I liked my DX-100 audio so much that I purchased  the
> audio interstage and modulation transformers from Heathkit to build my
> own compact mobile transmitter, and it sounded great on 75 meters in the
> late1950's. There certainly are a great group of guys that always come
> through on this reflector.  Good Luck with your SB-102 project, Ron,
> W6QM, Cerritos, CA.
>  
> On Thu, 22 May 2003 13:10:57 -0400 "John P. Cummins, Sr."
> <jpcummins@charter.net> writes:
> 
>>What a group...!
>>
>>At 11:56 local time I put a note out here for SB-102 info.
>>
>>At 12:32 Jim Fisk, KC0HEW sent me everything I needed.
>>
>>At 12:35 Russ Hinds, WB8ZCC sent me everything I needed.
>>
>>Incredible.. how did we keep old gear going in the old days..???
>>
>>Pickett, AD4S
>>
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