Message-Id: <20050815015124.QDHK3347.ibm60aec.bellsouth.net@[68.212.100.204]> On 2005-08-14 [log in to unmask] said: >I just acquired an original Heath DX60 transmitter and HG10 vfo >from the estate of my Elmer and life-long friend, K5ZFM. >A local friend is going to help me restore it. There shouldn't be >much to do other than perhaps changing out the power supply filter >caps. While it's not the greatest receiver in the world, I would >like to someday acquire the matching HR10 just to have the matched >set. Meanwhile, I'll pair it with my original Hq110 which I >received new for Christmas in 1968. >It may be next spring before this classic re-birth happens, but I >can hardly wait to get it operational. I remember those, especially the hr10. I can tell you a little story about an hr10 I bought from a friend and sold to my ex brother-in-law back in 1975. I bought the radio when a student at the Iowa commission for the blind, used it for awhile, sold it to ex brother-in-law. HE used it for awhile, bought a heath sb-303 and traded me back the radio for something else. i lost interest in shortwave listening and ham radio for awhile and turned a friend onto the radio. A few years later the same radio came back to me when I was itching for something to listen oto the ham bands on. AT a small point in time I'd acquired an almost pristine Hamarlund hq-180 which I really loved, but it went when money got shore to a pawnbroker. I got the itch and here came the old hr10 home again. By this point tubes were going southbound at an accelerating rate. THat radio was like the bad penny that wouldn't go away at that point. I gave it to another friend who finally used it at some boot in a trade to a collector on the internet. Lived in Iowa still in those days and whenever that receiver came home to roost my only time check source was chu on 7335 khz. 73 de nf5b Richard Webb Electric Spider Productions "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the Historical review of Pennsylvania