[Heath] Heath AR-3

[Guy Giacopuzzi]

Well, I'm not quite a generation later, that is, younger than Glen....it 
was 1967...I was in seventh grade.... when my parent got me my first 
'real' shortwave receiver, a Heathkit GR-64....it has four tubes, a bit 
of a regenerative BFO, and a sliderule dial.  It's "two generations" 
beyond the AR-3...the first being the GR 91, which was almost the same 
receiver less the built in AM loopstick.  I have a "mess of" GR-64's 
because I have such an affection for them...I got my first Novice 
contact (in San Francisco, I was in San Gabriel, CA at the time) on the 
GR-64, and that took some doing because it's selectivity is all of a 
couple stages of 455kc IF's....It was one hot SWL receiver, much better 
than the AR-3, and I logged a large number of SWL broadcast stations on 
it...it's sensitivity was amazing, esp with that BFO.  I later got the 
"period accessory" , the GD-125 Q multiplier, which was an updated 
version of the QF-1 (I think the difference was the QF-1 didn't have 
it's own power supply....)...that has proved to be a very hard to find 
item on the used market...I /still /don't have one...., but I do have 3 
GR-64's, one GR-91, one GR-81 and one or two GR-54's....And Glen, 
/anything/ is better than a Halli S-38!!!  Those were Heathkit's "heady" 
days, and they really turned out some FB SWL machines, running on fewer 
tubes than most of their competitors, and running circles around them 
all the time....
Does everyone realize that SWLing was our "internet" back then???

Guy


On 1/23/2016 5:56 AM, Keith Harvey wrote:
>
> I still have one here, complete with the Q Multiplier.
>
> Graduating from crystal sets, and saving for weeks I ordered the Heath 
> AR-2.
>
> Heath told me they no longer had that but suggested the AR-3, I saved 
> for a few more weeks
>
> and bought one. I couldn’t afford the cabinet at the time, purchased 
> that later. I spent many hours
>
> with headphones (ear squashers) listening to s/w from all over the 
> globe as well as country music
>
> stations from the south (WWVA Wheeling comes to mind). 100’ of wire 
> strung from my window to the
>
> fence line helped immensely.
>
> Sputnik was tuned in on a couple of evenings, a big thrill. I recorded 
> it on ¼” reel – reel, an old relic I rebuilt.
>
> I never did learn (at the time) how to use the Q multiplier properly, 
> didn’t even know what “Q” was.
>
> Every few months I pull the AR-3 off the shelf and fire it up. Tuning 
> is a bit sloppy and it does drift for a while,
>
> but it does remind me of many hours of listening to International S/W 
> “news and views”.
>
> Keith Harvey   VA3KRV
>
> Campbellford, Ontario, Canada
>
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