Oh hey yeah, I also had access to my Elmer's HQ129X receiver, was quite fun! 
Doesn't the HQ180A have the built in clock face? :)

I'd love to see an ole Heath Apache some time, matched my Marauder I think, 
or was that the TX? or another TX? Been a lot of years!

Curtis Delzer
W B 6 H E F
Fessenden, North Dakota; 58438-7300
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:26 AM
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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >