[Heathkit] Ye gods and little fishes!

[Grant Youngman]

> I do miss kit building though, it was a major life event for 
> me then.  First the anticipation of the arrival of the kit, 
> then setting aside a place to build it, then building it, and 
> last - testing it and putting it on the air.  

All that is true.  The other thing I can recall like it was just yesterday
is simply taking the first deep whiff of the freshly opened box of parts.
My first Heathkit was a V-7A around 1957, my last was a frequency counter in
the late 80's (both of which I still use), and there were a lot of Heathkit
boxes to open in between :-)

I suppose there are those who would museumify the unbuilt kits.  I'll leave
that to the curators -- I'd rather build them. 

> Memorable!

Absolutely.  I wonder occasionally if building an Elecraft would have the
same "feel" to it, but somehow I don't think so.

Grant/NQ5T