[Heathkit] Tube List for Heath GW42 CB Rig

[Dan Cotsirilos]

here is a neat ad

http://www.cbtricks.com/radios/heathkit/gw_42/ad/index.htm





Dan K9DTC

-----Original Message----- 
From: Walt dabell 
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 7:58 AM 
To: heathkit at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Tube List for Heath GW42 CB Rig 

Great story Mike, thanks for sharing!

    Walt Dabell - W3WMD

On 1/30/2011 3:45 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
> In 1965, my brother, who was 17 years-old, built a Heath Kit 5
> channel CB rig. That radio led me, then an 11 year old, toward more
> friendships in our town, drove me to want to know why we could hear
> and talk with people in Chicago, or Los Angeles from our home in
> Mississippi, (he forgot to tell me
> we weren't supposed to talk to them) and ultimately to
> a broadcasting career, and to my ham license, which I have now had for
> almost 42 years.
>
> He later traded that radio toward a 23 channel unit, which we both
> thought was really cool!
>
> In all of my plundering at ham fests, junk stores, yard sales, etc, I
> had never
> seen another of that Heath Kit model until yesterday.
>
> That's when a very dusty Heath GW42 CB rig leaped from a flea market
> table, and followed me home from the Jackson, Mississippi ham fest.
> The friend who
> brought it was amazed that I recognized it so quickly. After hearing
> this story, he told me that I had the grin of an 11 year old when I
> touched it.
>
> Amazingly, all of the knobs are there, along with the original
> microphone, and 5 sets of crystals. But, one tube is missing, and I
> have no manual.
>
> If anyone has a GW42, please send me the tube list.
>
> I am going to clean it up, at least physically, and surprise my
> brother with it on his birthday.
>
> He lost interest in radio a long time ago, but I'm betting this one
> will bring him as broad a smile as much as finding it did for me.
>
>
> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>
>
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