Its long-term utility was limited by the one-year non-renewable Novice license
of that era.
It actually was a pretty good CW rig. I used it long after I upgraded
from Novice. W1AW used one for their Novice station for awhile.
It had true full break-in that worked perfectly. The receiver came
standard with a 500 Hz crystal filter. With the external HG-10 VFO you
had separate stable transmit and receive VFOs so working split was not a
problem.
Alan N1AL
On 7/3/22 14:54, Mike Morrow wrote:
I don't know what an HW-16 is.
The HW-16 is a vacuum tube, 90-watt (maximum) input, crystal-controlled CW-only
Novice-band transmitter and receiver kit with built-in AC power supply. It covered the
CW portion of only 80m, 40m, and 15m. It was sold by Heath from 1967 to 1976. Its 1967
kit price was "only" $110, but that's equivalent to almost $1000 in 2022.
Adjusted for inflation my full-house KX2 50 years later was less expensive.
The HW-16 was popular when I was WN5WGJ in 1968, but at age 16 I could never have afforded one. :-) Its long-term utility was limited by the one-year non-renewable Novice license of that era.
Mike / KK5F
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