Re: Radio Shark and Laff-At-It (was Calling Features and LATAs) [Telecom]
- From: Steven Lichter <diespammers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
Sam Spade wrote:
jsw wrote:was in High School, I build a Shortwave receiver for a class project, also Heath Kit. It is still around in my brothers garage, I always like my Hellacrafters SW better, though it gets harder to get tubes for it, several of the tubes have solid state replacements which I can still get, I have 10 of each tube for it.
And then there was Olson ... and yes, Allied.
Anybody else remember Burstein-Applebee ??
Anyone here assemble Heathkits?
Didn't they start out as ham radio kits?
I recall in 1967 a friend in Kansas City assembled a color television set.
***** Moderator's Note *****
I remember those sets: they were head-and-shoulders above anything
else I'd ever seen. Of course, that was back when TV's were
point-to-point wired, by hand, so Heathkit could use high-end
components and still come in at a great discount.
I assembled an AR-15 receiver as a birthday gift for my mother, which
was, at the time, the best receiver that Consumer Reports had ever
tested. My father told me later that when I opened the boxes and laid
out the parts, he wrote off the money. I did, however, get it done: I
still have it and it still works.
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I build a Heath Kit Tube tester, still have it and it does work. When I
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