Time to build DX-100, SB-100, HW-100?

[Bob Hardie- W5UQ]

yeah Right.... I built two... I was 15 or 16 yrs old at the time... Like 
I can remember that far back... HI HI HI

Seriously, seems like it took a few days, but seems like it wasn't over 
a week or so.  Don't remember if I spent a lot of time every day on it 
or not. 

The second one I don't remember at all.  One thing I remember is that we 
couldn't get it to work on 15 meters.  I finally figured it out that the 
160 meter portion and the 80m and 40 m and such of the driver coil, when 
shorted out to leave coil enough for 15 meters, was like an absorption 
wave meter.  It absorbed the RF and the drive to the finals was not high 
enough to drive the tubes.  So I scratched about four or five turns of 
the 160 meter coil and soldered them together to short them out.  The 
drive was sufficient then.  Back then, not many people were on 160 
meters and we didn't use it on that band.  Seems like it still worked on 
160 however. 

That was around 1955 or 56..... 

Building it was fun.  I'd like to do it again.... GL and 73's.  Bob  
W5UQ   formerly WN5EUQ and W5EUQ  

Brian Wood wrote:
> Could someone who built a DX-100, SB-100/1/2 or HW-100/1 back in the 50's or
> 60's tell me how long it took? I'm looking for an estimate of the total
> number of hours. I can't remember how long I spent on the Heathkits I built,
> but I'm hoping one of you has a better memory!
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> Brian, W0DZ
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