[NJARC] Fw: [Heathkit:Yahoo] The amazing journey of a DX-20, a 100, 000 in one shot

[Chuck]

What a great story!!!
That’s like something you’d see on TV.

From: Joseph Devonshire 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 4:27 PM
To: njarc at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: [NJARC] Fw: [Heathkit:Yahoo] The amazing journey of a DX-20, a 100,000 in one shot

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For all of us who go to Hamfests and Swapmeets and sometimes wonder about what happens to the stuff we sell, here is a good story.
 
Joe Devonshire

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From: military.radioman <samhevener at yahoo.com>
To: heathkit at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 2:40 PM
Subject: [Heathkit:Yahoo] The amazing journey of a DX-20, a 100,000 in one shot


I have to start the story back in 1959 when I received my Novice class license with the call KN3JBU. I had already admired the Heathkit catalogs for a year or two and knew I wanted to order a DX-20. It arrived shortly after. I built the kit and used that set while I was a Novice. I kept it for a few years after I upgraded. I went into the army in 1964, in fact 49 years ago today, Feb 24th. My parents got rid of most of my stuff while I was in the army. Skip ahead to about the year 2005. I attended the Warren Ohio hamfest that year and a vendor had an almost unmodified DX-20 for sale which I bought for about $50.00. I know you are going to think it is my orignal set. It wasn't. As I was paying for the set, the seller said he had the assembly-instruction manual for the set which he handed me. I looked at the manual and the name Brian Cycle (not his real name which I don't have permission to use) and an old style phone number. His last name is about a one
of a kind. I also attend militay vehicle shows and had run across a man by that name that was into military motorcycles that lives in New York. I had no idea he was a ham but I called the number on a motorcycle business card he had given me. When I told him I had a DX-20 manual with his name on it he was overjoyed. I told him I also had a set with the manual but didn't know if it matched or was his. He informed that he had installed a small RCA jack on the back panel for a VFO. The jack was there, it was his old set. He told me his parents had also got rid of his gear when he joined the army in 1960. We worked out a trade for the DX-20, I received an army BC-348 receiver and he got his long missing DX-20 with manual back. Of all the people to buy that DX-20 at that hamfest and had known him from another hobby is a 100,000 in one shot. Where was that DX-20 for those 45 years?


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