[Heathkit] HW-101 unbuilt kit

Ronnie Hull w5sum at comcast.net
Wed Jul 10 17:20:21 EDT 2013


I still have the hw101 I built when I was a senior in high school

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On Jul 10, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Walt Dabell <walt at dabell.org> wrote:

> Hmmmm.... You mean everything doesn't have a monetary value?
> 
> I just came back from vacation. As far as I can tell, there
> is a monetary value to EVERYTHING!! :-)
> 
> Actually, this sounds like an interesting business to get
> in to! Does anyone have their original Heathkit box laying
> around? Just throw a bunch of old parts in the box, enough
> to make it rattle, then seal it up with packing tape. Sell
> it for $1600, or whatever you can get. Just make sure to
> tell the buyer that if they break the seal, all of value
> floats out, sort of like smoke, and all they will have is
> a box full of old parts. :-)
> 
> Aren't there newer-technology kit radios around? I thought
> so...
> 
> Thanks for sharing, John!
> 
> Walt Dabell - W3WMD
> 
> On 7/10/2013 1:07 PM, Tom Chesek wrote:
>> Plus a pleasure that you can't put a price on.  If everything had to
>> have monetary value we would never take a vacation, go to a movie or
>> other pleasurable pursuits.
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: W. Harris
> [...]
>> 
>> Build it and you have a $150 radio.
> [...]---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Message: 1
> [...]
>>> Anyone notice the HW-101 kit on epay went for over 1600 dollars? Wow!
> [...]
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