[Heathkit] Re Hot Water 101? & the SB-line

[KHeck73 at aol.com]

I also remember the SB line nicknamed "Sugar Baker", as in "the rig here is  
a Sugar Baker 101".    -Karl.
 
In a message dated 10/17/2006 12:11:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
RMcGraw at Blomand.Net writes:

Never  new either.  However, using correct phonetics it would have been Hotel 
 
Whiskey.  Otherwise, the cheap stuff.

73
Bob,  K4TAX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex"  <kr1st at amsat.org>
To: "Duane Fischer W8DBF"  <dfischer at usol.com>
Cc: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent:  Monday, October 16, 2006 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Re Hot Water  101?


> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>
>> Can any  of you tell me how, or why, the Heathkit "HW" product line came 
>>  by the "Hot Water" designation?
>
> From:
>
>  http://www.bellsouthpwp.net/w/d/wd4mei/hamradio.html
>
> "
>  The ol' tube boatanchor;  a Heathkit HW-101,  often called the   "Hot 
Water 
> 101", because it came as a kit, and a bunch of aspiring  builders got into 
> Hot Water trying to get these things put  together.