[Heathkit] My first station

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Ross,

I got to use an HW-101 in the 80s at Field Day a couple of years. I 
operate CW for those events and the first year my pretty radio broke 
while driving over railroad tracks enroute to FD. One of the hams there 
told me he had a "spare" radio that even had a cw filter in it but it 
was an old tube radio. I used it to pump out a lot of FD contacts and it 
worked nicely for me.

Another year I was away and those people had a "spare" rig too..an 
HW-101just like the first one I used. So I gave them a bunch of contacts 
in the log with that one, too. Instead of hot dogs we had steaks! Both 
radios worked very well for me.

<heresy mode on> I still have the "pretty" radio and use it often - 
Kenwood Twins. <heresy mode off> Heathkit radios are all over the shop 
and take turns getting on the air sometimes. Some of them have been 
loaned to new novices to get on the air while they shopped for radios of 
their own. The Heathkit radios *ALL* survived the handling by novices.




On 04/22/2015 10:54 AM, Ross Stenberg wrote:
> My first station was a Knight Kit T-60 and RME-4300 receiver. Still 
> own the Heathkit  SB-101 that I built in 1967, use in on occasion and 
> works fine.
>
> Have gone thru Johnson Vikings I and II, Valliant, Ranger, 
> Hallicrafters, Hammarlund and others too numerous to mention.
>
> Currently use nothing but SDR radios and computers are an integral 
> part of my station.
>
>    73 Ross K9COX
> ______________________________________________________________