[Heathkit] British Heathkits

[Bry Carling]

That looks like some highlymodified TX on the floor. I wonder what that is! 
My "elmer" at age 14, 15 or so had a ham band receiver similar to the HR-10B
but I think it was called an RA-1 and it included 160m. That was the only band he ever 
used it on - had a small 10 watt AM xmtr, and the antenna was a half wave end-fed 
L shaped wire fed by a transformer wound on a large diameter former. As I remember it was 
about the size of a porridge oats cannister.

They had a great AM roundtable around Cambridgeshire in East Anglia that was very active, 
both during the days and evenings, and especially on Saturday mornings with a large number 
of check-ins.

On 27 Jan 2012 at 8:21, Nick England wrote:

Date sent:      	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:21:34 -0500
From:           	Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>

> Also interesting was the British VFU-1 that was similar to the
> VF-1,
> but looked quite different.
> It's in the middle of this photo
> http://www.virhistory.com/ham/photos/heathpile-1.JPG
> Nick K4NYW
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:57 PM, David  Thompson
> <thompson at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I remember working VS9MA back about 1960 and he used a DX-40U.
>  Totally
> > different front panel from the DX-35 I had as a novice.  The
> DX-40U made it
> > to the Dx column in QST along with VS9MA.
> >
> > On a trip over to the UK many years ago I went to a rally (what
> they call
> > hamfests) and there was a dealer there with Heathkits many of
> which were no
> > longer made in the USA.  I remember the DX-100U had some of the
> same pattern
> > as that DX-40U and was available as wired or in kit form.
> >
> > 73 Dave K4JRB
> >
> >
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