HI ed,

On Sun 2012-Apr-15 18:10, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:


RW>AK>though they were an AM receiver, if you turned the BFO on and
then set the
RW>AK>offset + or - about 1 KC you could listen to SSB with them. I spent many
RW>AK>Late Watches just DXing the bands with the big receiving
antennas in Puert
RW>AK>Rico on a spare receiver while waiting for traffic to come in.

RW>EV> IMHO there is nothing wrong with turning on the BFO on a 'AM' RX.

RW>EV> My first RX was a Hallicrafters S-38E, it had a switch to turn on a
RW>EV> BFO to listen to CW or SSB (if you could call the circuitry in the
RW>EV> S-38E a BFO) IIRC it was just a wire routed around some sections in
RW>EV> the chassis that got 'switched in'.

RW>YEp, my first receivers were general coverage types, to
RW>receive cw or ssb one had to engage the bfo.  First straight receiver I owned
RW>which had a usb lsb rx position was a
RW>HEathkit sb-303.  I never minded it that much .

EV> I got a Drake 2-B later on to use with a Heathkit "Apache" TX-1. 

EV> Neither one of them were New, just 'new' to me.

EV> Both of them are nice rigs.

YEp, they were.  I had, first non general coverage, but ham
bands only, still had teh bfo was a Heath hr-10b receiver.

Interesting story with that receiver, I called it my yoyo
receiver.

I had a Hamarlund, but it was at my parents' house, I was
married to 1st xyl and going to college, it stayed home at
the folks' just because I didn't think I'd have room for it. I traded a
guitar amp for something else, and this hEath
hr-10.  I eventually got the Hamarlund from the folks'
house, ended up selling it, but turned the HEath hr-10 on to my wife's
little brother so that he could listen adn learn
the code.

HE traded it to somebody else, don't know what for.  Anyway, the guy he
traded it to owed me for something, i think help
with a recording project, but don't recall waht, and didn't
have the dough, so he gave me a bass guitar he wasn't using, and this
heathkit receiver.

I sold that receiver at a tailgater then, i didn't want it,
I had the sb-303, and by that point the Radio shack dx-160
gc receiver.

A few years later I had no radio gear at all except for 2
meters, and a buddy of mine gave me this hEathkit hr-10b.
I'd had a friend make some marks on the chasis inside a lot
of my gear of that period, so I had a friend of mine look
inside the hr-10 I got from the old guy, and sure enough, it was that same
hr-10 that kept bouncing back to me.

The Drake 2b and 2c were much better receivers.  Iirc they
at least had an gac circuit, which the hEath hr-10 didn't.


Regards,
           Richard
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