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<DIV>I couldn't have said it better than John. I still have a Heath GR-371
Color TV which I built in the fall of 1971. It is still functional. I had
coveted the Heath 25 in.sets for about 2 years when I was finally able to afford
one.</DIV>
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<DIV>After leaving the Navy in 1970 and being hired by Coulter Electronics as
their bench tech in Atlanta, I finally felt that I could buy one. It took about
40 hours assembly time to complete the kit. As with John, there were no
errors, but there were two intermittent problems that the local heath store was
able to help me correct after I convinced them that the problems were real. The
first was with the audio. The sound would fade out and in while watching the TV.
This turned out to be a defective transformer on the sound board. After I
demonstrated this to the tech at the store, they gave me a new transformer. The
other problem was a defective tuner strip on the mechanical tuner for channel
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<DIV>Over the next 40 years, all that I replaced were the filter caps in the
power supply and some of the power supply diodes. I did however experience the
problems with the transistor and IC sockets that John mentioned. That was the
only weak point.</DIV>
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<DIV>Until the early 1990's, the picture quality matched the best sets I
saw in the stores. At this time it is sitting in my workshop in my
basement. It will probably suffer the same fate as John's TV. At least I still
have my </DIV>
<DIV>AR-3 receiver, V-6 VTVM, SG-8 Signal Generator, IT-11 Capacitor Checker,
AJ-30 tuner and a few other Heathkits.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dan Terry</DIV>
<DIV>Former Senior Field Service Engineer, Beckman Coulter Inc.</DIV>
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