WTB: monobanders 20 and 40, HW or HWA

[KD2E]

I have an HW12A as well.... It is an amazingly good working radio for how
simple it is.
Back in its' time, there were companys that made kits to turn it in to a
three band rig.
I bet that would have made for a great rig! (If it was a clean mod!)
I like the action of the radio better than the HW101!
....Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Ketner" <ketner at ARISBEASSOCIATES.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:03 AM
Subject: WTB: monobanders 20 and 40, HW or HWA


> Greetings Heathens:
>         Recently I bought an HW 12 75 meter monobander from a gent on the
Heath
> list. Nice transaction. I did some cleaning and tweaking and it now
> seems to be running right. In the course of working and cleaning, I
> began to enjoy this simple but elegant and effective rig.
>         In short the experience has made me hope for a chance to pick up
the
> other two bands in HW 22 (20 meters) and HW 32 (40 meters) units. The A
> version of either would be fine too.
>         The best lesson I learned working on the rig came from the fact
that I
> was running my HP 23 power supply at 300 volts (low voltage line) on the
> assumption that the inputs would be the same as for my HW 101 which
> requires 300 v.
>
> WRONG-O.
>
> The HW 12 did strange things. As soon as I consulted the manual, noticed
> the voltage differences, I modified my HP 23 to act like an HP 23B with
> low voltage switchable from 300 or 250, ran 250 into the rig, and all
> the weird stuff went away.
>         I also found an extra parallel fixed cap on the final tune
variable.
> That threw me for a while because I couldn't get the final to tune.
> Looks like the previous owner was trying to shift out of design band.
> That was probably why the VFO was set lowside. Once I brought that back
> to specs, installed a new set of finals from AES for total of $7 (how
> many rigs can make that claim???), bingo, 100 watts plus output, nice
> receiver action, altogether delightful and easy to use.
>         Shore would like to have fun with em on 40 and 20.
> --
>
> Ken Ketner
> ARS KA5ELD
>
> email:
>         home:   ketner at arisbeassociates.com
>         office: b9oky at ttacs.ttu.edu
>
> PO Box 65135
> Lubbock, TX 79464
>
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