heathkit Radios

[Schichler, Alfred]

Hi Chris,
The name here is Al. I have the Heathkit SB-301 and SB-401 twins, and am
pretty happy with them. I bought the SB-401 cheap at a hamfest, and it
didn't work at all when I got it, but I restored it to pretty nice shape,
and both units work fine now, in fact the SB-401 is my only hf transmitter
now. Both units are very stable. I had a slight problem a while ago with the
transmitter being slightly off in freq from the rcvr, but I did a mod for
it, and now it's fine.

You can also use the SB-303 (which is solid state) with the 401, but from
what I hear, the performance isn't as good as the SB-301.

Here are some pictures of both units (from a Heath web site):

73,
Al, NE2D




-----Original Message-----
From: sb200 [mailto:sb200 at OPTONLINE.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:45 AM
To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Subject: heathkit Radios


The name here is Chris and I'am looking to buy my first heathkit radio.  I
sure like the idea of apair of twins.  I know very little about these older
radios and need a lot of input from you guys.  I would like something in
great shape all mods, filters, tubes etc, etc done !  O important were there
any mole that did not drift to much.. I own an Sb-200 so maybe something in
SB line.  If you have any pictures of your favorate heathkit please send it
along with your reply so I can see what modle your talking about.  All
heathkit webpages would be helpful too.  Thank you for all advice.


Chris, N2uqs

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