Tomorrow's Heathkit

[David M. Nance]

My thoughts exactly.  The opinions and information in the postings were great, but
as the Kingfish once said, "I thinks I detected a snarl in it somewhere".

A Happy and Safe Holiday to Everyone,

David - WB4SSE
Roanoke, Va

George Gleim wrote:

> 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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