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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 <i>still </i>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, <i>anything</i>
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....<br>
Does everyone realize that SWLing was our "internet" back then???<br>
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Guy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/2016 5:56 AM, Keith Harvey
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<p class="MsoNormal">I still have one here, complete with the Q
Multiplier. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduating from crystal sets, and saving
for weeks I ordered the Heath AR-2.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heath told me they no longer had that but
suggested the AR-3, I saved for a few more weeks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and bought one. I couldn’t afford the
cabinet at the time, purchased that later. I spent many hours<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with headphones (ear squashers) listening
to s/w from all over the globe as well as country music<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">stations from the south (WWVA Wheeling
comes to mind). 100’ of wire strung from my window to the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fence line helped immensely.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sputnik was tuned in on a couple of
evenings, a big thrill. I recorded it on ¼” reel – reel, an
old relic I rebuilt.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I never did learn (at the time) how to use
the Q multiplier properly, didn’t even know what “Q” was.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but it does remind me of many hours of
listening to International S/W “news and views”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keith Harvey VA3KRV<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Campbellford, Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grid FN14ci<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">VE3KHV APRS Wx<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.wunderground.com">www.wunderground.com</a> IONTARIO810<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.weather.campbellford.net">www.weather.campbellford.net</a> CWOP AS831<o:p></o:p></p>
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