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

[Garey Barrell]

Glen -

Don't forget the Drake 4 Series was a "Matched Pair" made in 
the 60's!  Maybe that's why it sold from 1965 through 1979 
and sold more units than the S-Line?

73, Garey - K4OAH
Atlanta

Glen Zook wrote:


> 
> Now, virtually all of the equipment sold during the
> 1950s and well into the 1960s were actually "stand
> alone" equipment.  With the exception of the Collins
> S-Line, the Eldico clones of the S-Line, and maybe
> one, or two, other units, it was not feasible to
> "transceive" using the receiver to control the
> transmitter as they came from the factory.  You had to
> "zero beat" the transmitter separately from the
> receiver.  Under this definition, with the exception
> of the aforementioned equipment, there were no
> matching receivers until the mid-1960s.  Whoops, I
> forgot about the fact that the Collins and Eldico
> transmitter don't run AM but the receivers can! 
> Heath's first "matching" receiver under this criteria
> (although still not a "matching" receiver due to the
> WWV band and the fact that they can also receive AM)
> would be the SB-300 which could transceive with the
> SB-400.
>