[Heathkit] Vintage Question Answered..

[Greg Mijal]

Did you know that Heathkit sold an automatic antenna tuner.  It's a later 
model, around the time that Heathkit sold brown ham gear.  I saw one at a 
hamfest in Arizona.  Not a prototype either.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <d_herr at juno.com>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 7:10 PM
Subject: [Heathkit] Vintage Question Answered..


> Thanks Gents, for the helpful feedback on the vintage tuner question..
>
> Yes, Bruce, I agree with you on the SB line colors.. that's why I was 
> asking about finding a tuner with the two tone green instead of the 
> black/gray on the SA2040 and 2060.  I'm a bit surprised that Heath 
> apparently did not produce a tuner in those colors during the 1970's.
>
> I was aware of the little AT-1, circa 1955 and the companion AC-1 antenna 
> "coupler" but a huge gap appears from that point until the next antenna 
> tuner which appears to be the SA-2020(1981).  This bypasses the Gray/Green 
> SB-100, 101, 200, 301, 401 etc. era entirely.
>
> According to Heathdates http://www.tech-systems-labs.com/heathdate.htm , a 
> few years later Heath put out the HFT-9 (1983) and the SA-2060 (1989. 
> These latter models abandoned the Green/Gray of the SB-100 series and look 
> more like the latter SS-9000 (1983) and SBS-1400 (1991)
>
> I especially appreciated Chris' input about "maxi-tuner".. I'll keep my 
> eye out for that one on Ebay.
>
> In answer to Gene's comment: "since the FCC chairman became my next door 
> neighbor?"  Actually, just an old ham interested in collecting and 
> restoring vintage equipment.. that's who!  Some of it's posted here: 
> http://mysite.verizon.net/halo.net/
>
> Bob's mattress tuner sounds interesting.. and I really don't need one on 
> the new Windom I just put up... however, a little green/gray tuner would 
> look nice sitting between the SB-twins.
>
> Thanks again for the comments..
>
> Doc
>
>
>
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