One of the reasons I delight in the rock-solid stability of today's gear -- the K3 in particular -- is that I had a Vf1 when I was a brand-new ham in 69. It was good enough on 80 and 40 but when I fired it up on 10 meters with the DX-40, it was WA3MIX AM & FM. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Youngman" <[email protected]> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Heathkit Returns!
> 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
