[Heathkit] Harbach Electronics status?

[G. Beat]

The antenna portion of the old Harbach business (10 years ago in Florida) is 
now PDS Electronics, Inc .. aka DX Engineering operating out of Akron, Ohio
http://www.dxengineering.com/

The Heathkit SB-200 and SB-220 amplifier updates is still Harbach 
Electronics (now in Polk, Ohio)
http://www.harbachelectronics.com/

Jeff Weinberg, who operates Harbach Electronics and has recently been over 
whelmed with 50 orders for various Heath SB-200 and SB-220 updates.  Since 
most of these items are sold "pre-assembled" ...he is having to stop taking 
orders for a period of time to "catch-up" on building these assemblies.

Why 50 orders - all of a sudden?
Popularity of the Soft switch for using the Heath amplifiers with modern 
solid-state transceivers
The success of eBay in surfacing a number of Heath amplifiers that likely 
would have been destroyed (sent to dump)
Age of the Heath SB amplifiers, requiring replacements of HV electrolytic 
capacitors.
Good Internet "how-to" article on SB-200 rebuilding by Bob Norgard that 
features Harbach components
http://home.gci.net/~rnorgard/ampnotes.html
It's winter and amateurs like their "winter projects"

Jeff does have all of the Harbach assembly documentation on-line even 
through he is not currently accepting orders.
The Harbach product support menu can be found here:
http://www.harbachelectronics.com/reference/harpg8.htm

w9gb

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> Jeff Weinberg - W8CQ
> Harbach Electronics
> 468 County Road 620, Polk, OH  44866
> Telephone & Fax (419) 945-2359
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> info at harbachelectronics.com
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> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:41:04 -0500 "jerry judy" <ke8np at ameritech.net>
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>> Is any one selling the line that was formally harbach
>> electronics????
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