NOT 2036 or 2036

[Sheldon Darack]

I've been watching this story become more and more interesting.
Unfortunately, you have the wrong model number.
You are talking about the rig that came before the 2036.  It may have been
the HW 2025, but I'm not sure if that is the correct model either.  It was
out for a short time and almost immediately recalled.
I bought an early HW2036.  It arrived Dec 24, 1976.
About a dozen local hams built them at them same over two or three months
and compared notes.  We were often chatting on 2 mtrs am as we worked on
the kits.  From time to time we consulted Heath to solve minor problems and
get new parts.
Mine is still on the air (daily).  (There is a police transmiter less than
1/4 mile away.)  I know of one  other of those kits that is still in daily
use.
Eventually, Heath came out with a four MHz mod kit, the changes turned it
into a 2036A. The original design only covered 2 MHz (actually we usually
got 3 MHz.)  I did the mod.  None of the changes involved emission
problems.  The 2036 was never recalled.  I chatted with Heath about minor
things over a couple years.  Again, the 2036 was not recalled.
Shel  WA2UBK

At 12:12 AM 11/1/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I started work at Heath just after the 2036A was released and the story
>as I remember it is as follows.
>
>The original 2036 was released and several 100's of units sold.  While
>the radio's worked fine in a fairly benign rf environment like St.
>Joseph, MI, they were a total disaster in high rf environments like
>Chicago and the complaints came flooding in.  Terry Perdue (who signs in
>on this list) was stuck with the task of fixing the problem (basically
>reference related spurs in the synthesizer) and he finally got the job
>done and the 2036A was born.  Heath recalled ALL 2036s and replaced them
>with 2036A's.  The 2036s were dumped into Lake Michigan.  I did hear an
>humorous story about a party given by the guys at Heath for Terry -
>involves a shotgun and a 2036 - but I wasn't there so maybe Terry would
>like to fill in that one.
>
>That's how I remember the story - maybe Terry or Jerry Tolsma or some of
>the other guys would like to chip in and straighten out any errors on my
>part.
>
>73
>Bob Groh, WA2CKY
>
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