[Heathkit] You never know what you'll find in a boatanchor manual

[Heinz Breuer DH2FA]

Same here, Heathkit letters, Collins letters and some Heathkit invoices 
for spare parts too. There was a Heathkit subsidiary in Sprendlingen 
near Frankfurt, Germany and boy did they overcharge for their parts. 
Most extreme was the ssb filter 404-328 which cost 177.98 German Marks 
in 1983 which was about $55.62 back then. The HW-100 manual listed it as 
$17.95

vy 73
Heinz DH2FA, KM5VT

Greg Mijal schrieb:
> That's a great story Bob.
> I find those Heathkit letters too.  I've found a few Hallicrafters also. 
> And not one "Form" letter.
> Boy have times changed!
> For the best?
> Our modern day equivalent is the angry telephone call to someone in 
> Bangalore India totally disconnected from you.
> 73's
> Greg
> WA7LYO
> in sunny Feenix
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Young" <youngbob53 at msn.com>
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:39 PM
> Subject: [Heathkit] You never know what you'll find in a boatanchor manual
> 
> 
>> Sorry about this long winded story, but I'm a brand new tech (taking 
>> the general the 17th) and I'm getting a DX-100 ready to fire up that I 
>> bought last year from an estate in anticipation of passing the 
>> general. I had glanced at the manual but never really looked at it 
>> well. I took it out tonight to read it as the 100 is out of the case 
>> and I'm checking the tubes etc. I found an original letter dated 
>> 6-8-63 to the Heath Co. stapled in the manual along with the response 
>> from Heath dated 6-10-63 (like to see that happen today), from Ed 
>> Borezo Jr. K1SHH asking for info on mods for this transmitter to 
>> change it to a B. They wrote back and advised against changing it as I 
>> guess it would involve extensive modifications (or they just wanted to 
>> sell another transmitter) anyway I checked with the ARRL and the guy 
>> is living in Fla and is still active after all these years. He was 
>> originally from a city about ten minutes from here and I bought it 
>> from a city about an hour from here. He has no e-mail or at least it's 
>> not listed so I wrote him a nice letter telling him his old 
>> transmitter will soon be on the airwaves again (If I don't blow it up, 
>> hi!) and I enclosed his original letter, I kind of wanted to keep it 
>> but after some thought felt it would be selfish of me to keep it and 
>> he would probably get a big kick out of seeing his 43 year old letter 
>> to Heath. I'll let you guys know if he responds,
>>
>> Bob Young
>> Millbury, Ma
>> KB1OKL
>>
>>
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