Stan, Wow - what a great story. A real pleasure to read something like this.
I've cc'ed Heathkit as well - they may want to ask you to use their story on their web-site or other testimonial areas. 73's, John W. AJ6BC On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, stan levandowski <[email protected]>wrote: > I've built many Heathkits since 1960. One in particular stands out > because it is presently still in operation 24/7 to this very day! In > August 1973, I met my future wife in a local gin mill (hey, it was a > CLASSY gin mill with a band). She was a schoolteacher who had trouble > getting up in the morning because her alarm clock was unreliable. > > Never one to pass up an opportunity, I built her a digital Heathkit > GC-1005 alarm clock. It used those old orange-glow segment tubes you > younger guys can't possibly relate to. It worked in more ways than one: > we got married on December 22, same year. > > That Heathkit has been running constantly now for almost 38 years and, > infrequent power outages notwithstanding, the only maintenance it has > ever needed was a new line cord when the original one dry rotted out. > No other maintenance has ever been done -- nada -- nothing. > > We are still going strong too and often kid around that "If the Heathkit > stops, we're in deep poop." > > 73 from Stan WB2LQF > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
