Heathkits from hell

[Domenic M. Mallozzi]

In a message dated 1/24/01 10:43:18 PM !!!First Boot!!!, k7ny at HOTMAIL.COM
writes:

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Hi

Quite a few friends who are both hams and engineers always said build it like
the book first than modify it.

There are some real horror stories about what I will call "concurrent"
engineering of Heathkits. Some people actually reengineered them during the
construction phase. My favorite was a 'redesign' of a SB301 by a local ham
that actually decreased the IF gain by something like 20 dB. It took a KW in
the next room to get an S9 signal.

As with any kit build as designed than correct the real problems.

73's all

Dom
N1DM

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