[Heathkit] Heathkit SB Essay.

[jeremy-ca]

I was wondering when someone would comment on that Jim!
I had 3 C Lines with loads of mods and cascaded filters for many years doing 
contest and DX duty. Reluctantly gave them up when xcvrs with lots of 
features were mandatory to be competitive.

A SB-101 with a few mods is currently the basis of my 432/903 mHz station. 
The price was right, I bought a SB-220 off Ebay a few years ago and the 
SB101/ SB600 in mint condition were thrown in for free.
The stability and extremely low phase noise makes it a superb platform for 
very weak signals. For the same reason I use a couple of TS-830's on other 
VHF/UHF bands.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Shorney" <jshorney at inebraska.com>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Heathkit SB Essay.


> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:21:59 -0400, kiyoinc at attglobal.net wrote:
>
>>On sheer performance, the Heath's are up there. The 6HS6 (or FETs in the
>>SB-303)) give .25 microvolt sensitivity. Hot receivers, 6 pole
>>crystal filters, rock-stable, 1 kHz readout, etc. Transceiver slaved to
>>a full Receiver. Drake and Halli couldn't do that well until they went
>>digital.
>
>
> I'm astonished to hear that my Drake C-Line doesn't do any of that 
> stuff....
>
> 73
>
> -Jim (former HW101, current SB104A owner)
>
>
> --
> TR7/RV7, TR6/RV6, T4XC/R4C, L4B, NCL2000, SB104A, R390A, GT550A/RV550A, 
> HyGain 3750 - all vintage, all the time!
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF
> ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com **
> $$ See the vintage area on the HCI web site - http://www.w9wze.org $$
> Heathkit mailing list
> Heathkit at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/heathkit
>