The HW-16 was a great rig back then, with silent QSK and a good crystal filter.
I remember getting frustrated one night, and I cranked the PWR knob past the red mark on the plate-current meter that showed the 75-watt Novice DC input plate current limit. I had just turned 17, and worked 50 hrs at $2/hr to buy that kit. I was going to get a QSO that night even though I knew the FCC would soon be battering down my door and dragging me away in handcuffs. Good times. 73 Eric WN6RVG On Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 1:54 PM Mike Morrow <k...@earthlink.net> 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 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to norrislawfi...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
