[Heathkit] My first station

[Buck via Heathkit]

First station way back in the 50's. . .




Heathkit AT-1
Heathkit AR-3
Heathkit QF-1


Not sure how I ever heard or worked anything in those days!


Buck
W0LC



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: heathkit <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 11:11 am
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] My first station


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
>
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