VFO for the HW-18-3 160M Monobander?

[Dave Hollander]

Back in around 1968 or 1969 when I was in high school, I was really hot
on operating on 160 using a homebrew 6L6 transmitter with VFO that I
built and a Gonset G-66 receiver. That was when California was limited
to 1975-2000 KHz. This was also in the days when very little ham gear
had 160 on it . I would have killed for my best friend's Hallicrafters
SX-101 which did have 160.

My dad went to the Heath store in Anaheim, CA  which was something he
did periodically during his lunch hour ( despite using a Collins S-Line
at home) and came home with an HW-18-3 which they were selling out.
Believe at that time he paid less than $100 for it. I built the kit, he
built a power supply for it and then he built me a dual VFO (vacuum
tube) for it. I believe the VFO ran in the vicinity of 5 MHz. Back than,
if you wanted to work parts of the east coast, you had to work split
hence the dual VFO. It was a nice set up for me and a major improvement
over what I had been using. I used it until 1972 when I was the lucky 19
year old winner of a Signal One CX-7A at the Fresno DX Convention. The
units than went into a box.

I tried to resurrect them several years later after moving to Arizona
but the HW-18 had developed a nasty oscillation in the transmitter which
I was not able to cure. I dumped the HW-18 at a swap meet back in the
1970's. Might still have the VFO in my boxes of junk but have no idea
where it might be.

Anyway, the point of this message is yes, you can adapt it to use a VFO.
I believe the VFO ran in the vicinity of 5 MHz.

73 and good luck,

Dave

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