Pat,

I heard about the AR3, but never actually used one.  One interesting quirk 
of my AR2 was that the BFO didn't work due to an open oscillator coil.  I 
discovered that by proper adjustment of the Peak control on the QF-1, I 
could make it act like a BFO, and that's what I did for most of my novice 
career.  I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven when the coil got replaced 
and I had a real BFO.

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:26
Subject: Re: Old Heath Gear


> Steve,
> I started my ham life with an AR3 and a Globe Scout 40 with plug in
> coils. The receiver was so terrible that i waited until I got my code
> speeed up to 13 before I took my general - thought working the Novice
> bands with the AR3 wouldn't have been fun, even with the QF1.  Also
> had a VF1 with the Globe and worked a lot of 160 - still really like
> that band although it is way different now.
> Pat, K9JAuAt 08:44 AM 12/2/2007, you wrote:
>>Any of you guys remember the Heath AR2?  That receiver, and a DX40 was my
>>novice station in 1961.  I used a Heath Q multiplier, which improved the
>>selectivity of the receiver, but the AR2 drifted like crazy.  I have to 
>>say,
>>though, that the DX40 was a nice little CW transmitter as long as you used
>>it crystal controlled.  I eventually got a VF-1 for it, but never got the
>>chance to use it on the air.  That VFO was more unstable than the AR2.
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 00:49
>>Subject: Re: Old Heath Gear
>>
>>
>> > My first contact was made from the Nebraska School for the Blind on 
>> > April
>> > 25, between 4 and 5 PM, on 80 meters in 1966 and running the SX99 for 
>> > our
>> > receiver and the A T 1 for our transmitter because the DX60B was broke
>> > like
>> > usual.  My home station in Omaha was a DX20 and a BC348 receiver, using 
>> > no
>> > tuner, and 100 feet of wire running to a tree behind the apartments.  I
>> > had
>> > a blast using crystals on 80 and 40 meters for six months till I took 
>> > the
>> > general.  Years later, I went over to a friends with an expensive watt
>> > meter.  The final 6L6 showed just under 10 watts output so we plugged a
>> > brand new tube in.  It still showed just under 10 watts output.
>> >
>> > Phil.
>> >
>> > K0NX
>> > The Zenith Tube
>> > www.RedWhiteAndBlue.org
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:49 PM
>> > Subject: Old Heath Gear
>> >
>> >
>> >> My first transmitter was a  Heath kit A T 1.  It ran about 25 watts as 
>> >> I
>> >> remember.  In about 1965 I loaned it to a fellow ham who needed 
>> >> something
>> > to
>> >> get on the air.  About 5 or 6 years ago I called him and ask, what 
>> >> ever
>> >> happened to that old rig.  He told me it was setting in his cabinet 
>> >> and
>> > was
>> >> just waiting for me to come and get it back so I went and got it and 
>> >> it
>> >> is
>> >> setting here on a shelf in the shack.  I don't have any crystals  to 
>> >> see
>> > if
>> >> it works.  I guess they may be worth something now days also.  I'm not
>> >> interested in old gear myself, I like the new things hi. I think it 
>> >> was
>> > the
>> >> first transmitter kit from Heath.  Ed K7UC
>> >>
>> >>
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