[Heathkit] Heathkit SB Essay

Chris Codella, W2PA w2pa at arrl.net
Thu Jul 12 20:36:32 EDT 2007


Mike,

Thanks for the great inside look.  Your time at Heathkit pretty much 
matched my early years in radio exactly - starting in 1968.  As a kid I 
used to pour over those catalogs reading and rereading every word in the 
descriptions of the ham equipment.

73,
Chris, W2PA


MikeDoolin at aol.com wrote:
> As someone who worked at Heath, had constant contact with the Engineering and 
> Manual departments, and who was one of the Hams at Heath, I just have to jump 
> into this. I'll preface this by noting that I wrote the Heathkit catalogs 
> from 1968 thru 1974 and was the only Ham in the Advertising department (ex 
> WB8CDU, now KC2TP). During that time I built somewhere around 300 Heathkits
>   


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