[Heathkit] My first station

[Adrian Flynn]

Better ears on your head

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Adrian KF7DYU
On Apr 22, 2015 12:37 PM, "Buck via Heathkit" <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> First station way back in the 50's. . .
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> Heathkit AT-1
> Heathkit AR-3
> Heathkit QF-1
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> Not sure how I ever heard or worked anything in those days!
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>
> Buck
> W0LC
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> -----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
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> 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.
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>
>
>
> 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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