Wow!!

[Dave Kelley]

Hi gang!

Well, I'm floored!  As of 23:00 zulu (if you remember Heath, you remember zulu) on 3-23, there are 148 people signed up on the Heath list, with 51 posts already!!  I guess it was due, huh?

I've owned and built Heaths for as many years as they were there for me starting 30 years ago.  I had a station of SB line that was 9 feet long once if you set it all side by side...and that was with the SB-102 and not the 300/400!!  I built one SB-200 once just to sell it again right away for the price of another kit so I could build another one.  I still do that today - but with Oakhills and others.

I have and will be buried with, my HW-9 with all the matching stuff.  Great rig!!  My main station is a Drake 4B line and it may sound fickle, but I love that stuff too.  I tried Collins but it's better for SSB and we all know "real hams use CW!!"  :o)  No offense and heaven forbid THAT starts a thread!!

I'm starting to collect some Heath test gear like a tube checker and signal generator.  Great stuff and very cheap.  There were some very good builders back then...this stuff looks good!

I've been asked if this list is just for the ham gear - and I really don't have an answer.  I figure most of heaths customers were hams, so I expect we can handle a little "organ" and "HiFi" info across here.  If it happened to get REAL heavy in that we may split the list, but I doubt it will be a problem.

A note about the new Boatanchors list I've started.  I hope it flies - only because I HATE seeing anyone make money from our hobby, except the dealers and manufacturers, many of whom we didn't support well enough to keep them going in the past.  (I just wish there were more US ones to support today)  Basically, I would rather spend that $20 on a new bobble instead of another subscription.

In the next week or so I hope to have a complete web page set up that will display the archives.  These are also available via e-mail request from the server and I'll give you all instructions once it's in place.

Enjoy and happy hamming!

73

Dave 
AI7R
(ex-WA7GPF and AA7TQ)