[Heath] Problems with HW-101 - a possible solution

[Gordon Gwillim]

 Hi Ken. Reading other contributions to this thread I am getting a better handle on the mentality of the kit building folks.  I "inherited" an HW100 from a senior that I had been in contact with for over 20 years.  Another ham and I divided up the equipment that Dan had left for us and I took home the HW100.  Got to it about a year later to discover that it indeed was "new" and the VFO was "way off in the hinterland" so could not possibly ever have ever worked properly.  Old Dan was a bit like me in that the philosophy was something like "I'll get around to troubleshoot that thing someday".  We got working on a new repeater in the district and he was so involved that he didn't get back to the 100.  The repeater was very successful in 1975 and has been a tribute to Dan ever since. Best wishes for success with the 101, Ken.
Greetings of the Season and thanks for the great stories 73Gordon, VE5UJ

    On Friday, December 18, 2020, 8:03:00 a.m. CST, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:  
 
 Hello again, Gang:

At the suggestion of another list member, I checked the position of the notches in the 
bandswitch wafers.

Of the 5 wafers, three are completely backwards. The only 2 which are correct are the final 
tank coil section, and the heterodyne oscillator crystal section.

What I cannot figure out is why, given this situation, that 80, 40, and (sort of) 20 worked at all.

But, I'm not going to bother to figure that out.

After I have corrected this problem, we'll see what is left.

Thanks to all.

Ken W7EKB
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