Jeff,
The DX100 is, I'm sure older than you are.  It was made by the Heath 
Company of Benton Harbor MI in the late fifties.  And for the next 
ten years or so.  It was a kit - ran over 100 watts of a m and CW 160 
through ten meters.  It was only available as a kit and thousands and 
thousands of them were in use.  They weighed around eighty pounds and 
it was a really heavy eighty pounds!!  They weren't quite the best 
store bought transmitter around, but their price point got lots of 
hams on the air.  At the time the joke around was that the name DX100 
came from the fact that they had worked 100 hams outside of Benton Harbor!!
Lots of memories.
Pat, K9JAUAt 07:59 PM 12/1/2007, you wrote:
>That must be an old unit!  When was it made, and is there anyone who still
>uses one?
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>On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Barbara Lombardi wrote:
>
> > Wow, those dx100's were heavy I'll tell you.  Used one for years 
> and used to
> > short out the 5r4 rectifier sockets. 73, Barb k1eir
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:19 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Fw: Funny Story
> >
> > David, I think at that time I was using a Drake 2 b or a Hamerlund H Q 170.
> > I don't remember for sure 73.
> > Ed K7UC
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David W Wood" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 5:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: Funny Story
> >
> >
> > > Yip: that VFO valve (as we call them in G) was certainly vulnerable!
> > >
> > > What was your receiver?
> > >
> > > With my DX100, it was the AR88!
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: For blind ham radio operators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
> > > Sent: 01 December 2007 22:03
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Funny Story
> > >
> > > One time back in the 60s or the 70s I was running a Heath D X 100.  I had
> > > it
> > >
> > > slid part way out of the cabinet doing something to it when I 
> heard a pile
> > > up on CR9AH over in Macaw by China.  I had heard folks working him many
> > > times but could not hear him but after tuning around and finding him he
> > > was
> > > very loud. I slammed the T X back in the cabinet and had raised it up a
> > > little and broke the V F O [6au6] tube off.  I could have laid down and
> > > cried.  I pulled it back out and luckily had marked spare tubes with
> > > masking
> > >
> > > tape.  I put a new one in and carefully slid it back together.  Hooking
> > > all
> > > the cables up I could still hear the station so called and worked him.
> > > Afterwards  I could feel the front of my shirt which was wet with sweat
> > > going in and out with the beat of my heart.  Sorry for the long story but
> > > it
> > >
> > > was one more  highlight of my D X chasing days.
> > > Ed K7UC
> > >
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