Yeah; the HG-10 worked better.

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, David R. Basden wrote:

> Ah yes, I remember that Heath VF1 VFO.  It was friction driven and the knob always slipped against the drive.  It was very hard to set the frequency.  If you left the VFO running and keyed the rig, the signal was reasonable wbut there was always a little tone coming out of the VFO.  If you keyed the VFO you got a chirp that shifted over two octaves!
>
> At 01:33 PM 4/19/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Mike,
> >
> >I had one of those; modified it for 160.  Quite a transmitter - never had
> >quite enough speech amp, however.  Used a Heath VF1 with it.
> >
> >Pat, K9JAUAt 11:07 AM 4/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >>Now I'll take people back a way.  I bet Don Bishop may be the only one
> >>that remembers this:  the first transmitter I used as a Novice was a
> >>Harvey-Wells Bandmaster  (the TBS50 series -- I had the D).
> >>Crystal-controlled, of course, though one could plug in a VFO.  CW and AM,
> >>80 thru 2-meters.  Used a 807 final.
> >>
> >>Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
> >>
> >>
>