SWL Receiver for Boy Scouts

[Robert S. Capon]

Doug:

I think it's a great idea to use Heathkits to introduce scouts to radio and to
the fun of buildng kits.  Of the shortwave radios that Heath introduced, I'm
partial to the Mohican (GC-1) and the GR-78.  Heath seemed to offer two tracks
of general coverage receivers: bare bones radios like the GR-54, GR-64, and
SW-717; and high end spiffy radios like the Mohican and GR-78.  The latter two
radios are so classy, that they may count as "modern art".

If you want to take this effort the next step, Ten Tec offers a product line
of three shortwave receiver kits that the kids can actually build.

1054: 4 band regen, front panel but no enclosure.  $24.
1253: 9 band regen, nice enclosure.  $59.
1254: Synthesized superhet.  Fancy.  $195.

I wouldn't trade any of these for a Mohican, but the kids can build them, and
get their feet wet in actually building a kit.  We did a school project with
some youngsters in a middle school ham club, in which every kid built the
1054.  It's pretty spartan, though, and the 1253 makes a nicer project.

Ten Tec's web site is: "http://www.tentec.com/".

Have fun.

73 & DX,

Rob, W3DX

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