Tomorrow's Heathkit

[Mitch Dickson]

Sure Ed,  My opinion is based on 22 years Bench time, 6 years as a broadcast
engineer for WTCI,  certificates of compeltion for Sony, RCA, Magnavox,
Phillips, Sanyo, Zenith, Uniden, Panasonic, Mitsubushi, Hitachi, Kenwood,
Sharp, Electronic Institute of America, Tectronics, and JVC Factory Service
to name a few.  Presently I work on Micro-electronics repairing camcorders.
I work under a stereo-microscope changing hundred pin surface mount chips
for a living.  Care to try that?  Would you care to trouble shoot the 200
pin digital IC's in a Sony camcorder with the equivalent of a Heath
Schematic?

If you checked my call you know it is Extra class.  My personal bench, in my
shop has a Sencore 6100  100 mhz dual trace scope, A cushman service
monitor, A Sencore 61 Anaylist, A Sencore 6Ghz Freq counter, A sencore "Z"
meter.  A curve tracer, a 50 amp continuous duty lab grade power supply, A
sencore powerite, a Haaco hot air desoldering and soldering station, a
weller bench iron, a good tectronics spectrum analyzer, bird watt meter, a
fluke 77, and a simpson analog.  Did I mention the function generator?

I will admit that I am not familiar with the entire Heath line, just the
SB-104, SB-614,SB-634,SB-644A,SB-604 and H1410 that I own.  I love the looks
of this system, and love to use it.  But an Omni it Ain't!  I think it great
that you used to work for Heath and sorry I struck a nerve but I told the
truth.  Let me say it again,  Heath took a lot of shortcuts, ran a lot of
components right at threshold, their schematics and documentation are
pitiful, they left out a lot of components that would make a circuit a lot
more stable and troublefree, a lot of which I suspect was done to keep their
service department busy "fixing" planned failures.

Drift yourself up to the heath page and take a look at the factory service
bulletins for the SB-104.  You can read them in about 3 or 4 hours :)  In
spite of it all, I still love this green thing!  CU  AE4YW  Mitch  73
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Mosher <wa8zvo at JUNO.COM>
To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Heathkit


>Mitch, care to tell us what you base your opinion on?
>

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