[Heathkit] Re: Heathkit HX-10 "Marauder" and matching Receiver "Mohawk"

[Greg Mijal]

This is my last comment concerning the Marauder/Mohawk stuff.
I stand by my original statement: There is no matching receiver for the
Marauder.
So much that I did a little more digging into this before someone decides
they want to re-write a tiny bit of American manufacturing history.
"Matching receiver and transmitter"  generally means to a ham that both
units will have the same frequency and mode coverage. There doesn't seem to
be a redefinition of the phrase from the 50's to now.
Mohawk/Marauder band coverage do not "match"
Documentation: "Matching receiver and transmitter" generally means to a ham
that the receiver manual will discuss the integration of the transmitter
into the "matching" system and vice vesa. There doesn't seem to be any
changes to that expectation either.
I went looking thru my Xerox copy of the HX 10 manual and cannot find a
reference to the Mohawk or any other specific receiver. If someone does
please let me know, I am missing a couple of pages to the manual.
 I think Heathkit marketed the Marauder as whatever you wanted to think it
was,  they wanted it both ways,  as a stand alone transmitter kit  and as a
"match" for the Mohawk.  They got a visual match ok but the coverage and the
manual say otherwise.
If I have pissed someone off, I'm glad really. Maybe this will rekindle
people's interest in a far superior Heathkit product and get them out of the
closet (the radio's I mean). Also, we can all use our brains and get to the
truth of the matter and not just accept whatever is written or spoken by our
Elmers.
Thank you all for letting me put in my ten cents worth. And now snip away my
part of this thread.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
in sunny Feenix
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Knapp" <kc8jx@yahoo.com>
To: <heathkit@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:01 AM
Subject: [Heathkit] Re: Heathkit HX-10 "Marauder" and matching Receiver
"Mohawk"


> Regardless of the controversy....the Heathkit Mohawk, the RX-1, is the
> companion receiver Heath marketed for the Apache and the Marauder.  It was
> their top of the line receiver from 1958-1964.
>
> Marketing years:
> Apache TX-1:     1958-1964
> Mohawk RX-1:     1958-1964
> Marauder HX-10:  1962-1965
>
> Best to all....73 Larry KC8JX
> One of the x-Hams at Heathkit
> Owner of a HX-10 and RX-1
>
> --- Glen Zook <gzook@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Mohawk was also sold to be used with the XC-6 and XC-2 6 meter and 2
meter
> converters to be compatible with the Seneca (VHF-1) that was styled in the
same
> manner as the Mohawk but was a fair bit smaller.
>
> The Mohawk was a "satisfactory" SSB receiver back in the late 1950s and
early
> 1960s.  It definitely does not compare with later receivers that work very
well
> on SSB but are marginal on AM.  When it came out, the "problems" were not
> "problems" because amateur radio operators did not have better receivers
with
> which to compare the Mohawk.
>
> The fact that the Marauder functions better on SSB than the Mohawk really
> doesn't affect the fact that Heath marketed the receiver to be used with
both
> the Apache and Marauder.  The Mohawk was basically a 1957 design that was
> marketed starting in 1958 as was the Apache.  The Marauder was basically a
1961
> design which is 4 years newer.  However, the Mohawk remained the "top of
the
> line" receiver until the introduction of the SB-300 in the mid-1960s.
>
> Therefore, I still maintain that the Mohawk was the "matching" receiver
for the
> Marauder.  This is due to the styling, the fact that it did have a product
> detector in it, and the fact that Heath advertised it referring to the
> Marauder.
>
> You disagree, and that is certainly your privilege. But, considering that
> starting with the Apache / Mohawk series that Heath provided a matching
> transmitter and receiver for their "top of the line" amateur radio
equipment, I
> still believe that the Mohawk was "the" receiver that was sold to be used
> with the Marauder and therefore is the "matching" receiver.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> --- Greg Mijal <bluebirdtele@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Glen you might remember that the  Heathkit Ads say "styled to match the
> Marauder and Apache" I agree. When you say sold as the matching receiver,
I
> disagree, the Marauder covers 80 - 10.  The Mohawk covers 160 - 10. So I
gotta
> say ok in an appearance way but not in performance.  Moreover the Marauder
> acts like a sweet "band cruiser" and the unmodified Mohawk has problems in
a
> couple of areas that are well known. In my mind the two are very much
different
> but it is all under the hood.
>
>
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