[Heathkit] Heathkit SB Essay.

[jeremy-ca]

The C line took way too much time for band changing plus it was a real pain 
for split operation.

Im talking serious all band contesting, not playing around for a few hundred 
contacts. My station took many first places in ARRL DX, CQWW and WPX events 
in the late 80's thru mid 90's. Started with all  C Lines, then one C Line 
and a TS930, then a pair of 930's and finally a pair of highly modified 
TS940's which I still use; one on HF and the other to drive a 6M xvtr. I 
finally tired of contesting and wasnt about to invest in more sophisticated 
xcvrs and autotune Alphas just for braggin' rights.

Before that I used a CE100V and 75A4; I still have the A4.  Modified that in 
64 with beam deflection mixers, 6HS6 RF, cascaded filters and a real AGC; 
did that at National Radio, got some interesting comments. Best radio Ive 
ever used on 160 and still use it under extreme weak signal condx.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Shorney" <jshorney at inebraska.com>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Heathkit SB Essay.


> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:18:45 -0400, jeremy-ca wrote:
>
>>Reluctantly gave them up when xcvrs with lots of
>>features were mandatory to be competitive.
>
>
> Say what?  Bells and whistles slow me down.  The C-Line is still my 
> favorite
> contest rig, although I take the all-blue TR7 to Field Day to educate the
> rice-boxers....
>
> 73
>
> -Jim
>
>
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