Tomorrow's Heathkit

[George Gleim]

Mitch, Ed, let's cool it?

O.K.?

Happy Hollidays to both of you,

George




Mitch Dickson wrote:

> 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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