My first rig back in the late 60’s. I worked the world as a 12 year old novice with a couple of 40 meter crystals and a dipole up about 6 feet. David, W4SMT
On Sunday, July 3, 2022, 10:18 PM, Kyle Chavis <wa4...@gmail.com> wrote: I guess you got off on a light sentence!! LOL I still have my HW-16 with the HG10B VFO. Guess I should under cover it just to make sure it still works. Although I lost my first two log books I still remember my first contact back in May of 1976. 73 Kyle, WA4PGM On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 10:01 PM Eric Norris <norrislawfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 wa4...@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 df...@yahoo.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
