It's probably a little bit disingenuous to bash the late 50's Heathkit products too hard. Generally, the stuff was a good value, worked (some better than others of course), and was certainly no worse than most other comparable products of the time. I had a friend who got a set of St. James Grey gear as a 14th birthday present, but sadly, I was forced to have my fun with the "awful" Heathkit stuff. And I did have fun, thank you ..
I wonder how many thousands of VF-1s were sold? Judging by their ready availability still, I'd hazard it was the most common VFO of the era. Most of us who built/used one managed not to attract the attention of OOs or the FCC as a result :-) Grant/NQ5T On Sep 8, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Phillip Shepard wrote: > I will second that. My Novice receiver was an HR-10B that I > built; and that was OK, but not great. Memories ... > > >> In the 1950s, the Heathkit AT-1 and AR-3 were pure junk. Yes, the prices >> were low, but the design quality was awful. The DX-20, DX-35 and DX-40 >> were just okay but the VF-1 was trash. The DX-100 and DX-100B were okay if >> you were "rock bound," but if you used the VFO - it was a VF-1 - and it >> was terrible on CW and drifty on AM. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
