Hal, this is great. I have requested to be added to their mailing list. I
still have my HW-101 that I built in the 70's.
Thanks, Charlie AA4CF
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> On Oct 8, 2015, at 4:36 PM, halken <halken at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Somehow I got on the "new" Heathkit mailing list. Their first kit is out.
> Looks like something I might want to build with the grandson.....
> N4GG
>
> If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here.
>
>
> Dear Heathkit Insider,
>
> ?What I really hope Heathkit will produce,? a Silicon Valley colleague
> recently told me, ?is a new radio kit with a beautiful finish, maybe in
> rosewood.? Something great to enjoy building and learn from, and also
> visually stunning, so he could put it in his living room and keep it forever.
>
> Today, my friend gets his wish.
>
> Exciting news. More on that in a moment.
>
> It?s been a while since we wrote to our Heath Insiders. We promised
> not to clutter your email inbox until we had something to say. Here?s a quick
> summary of what we?ve quietly been doing at Heathkit during the past year: We
> assembled a terrific team of very talented, hard-working, inventive people.
> We acquired another company and merged its management, products, assets, and
> operations gracefully into Heath Company. We ensured we own every last bit of
> Heathkit intellectual property, to bring you all the manuals, books, vintage
> designs, and classic logos you love, unencumbered and in perpetuity. We built
> a company division and acquired a line of vintage add-on designs to sustain
> the vintage products so important to many Insiders. We developed and
> integrated our eBay site, so you can buy or bid on auctioned items. We
> authored and published a helpful Android software app on Heathkit?s
> GooglePlay site, with more apps to come.
>
> That?s a lot, but there?s more. We?ve designed and developed a wide range of
> entirely new kit products. We authored the manuals for these kits, complete
> with the beautiful line art you rely on, preserving and respecting our iconic
> historic Heathkit style. We developed many new inventions and filed patents
> on them. We relocated Heathkit, and set up a factory, and a warehouse, and
> offices, in Santa Cruz, California, near Silicon Valley. We built the back
> office infrastructure, vendor and supply chain relationships, systems,
> procedures, operations methods, and well-thought-out corporate structure that
> a manufacturing company needs to support its customers, to allow us to scale
> instantly the day we resume major kit sales. All this effort enables us to
> introduce a fleet of new kits and helps ensure Heathkit can grow, prosper,
> and continue to bring you great new products for a very long time.
>
> As you can see, we?ve been busy. It takes a lot to bring Heathkit back into
> the kit business. And we?ve done it.
>
> We?ll have many product announcements coming, but today I want to tell you
> about our flagship kit.
>
> It?s a simple kit?by intent. We feel an enormous responsibility to respect
> and maintain the incredible legacy of Heathkit. To us this means, bringing
> you kits you can build yourself, using our historic renowned Heathkit
> you-can-do-it ?We won?t let you fail?? approach, yielding working useful
> appliances so beautiful you?ll be proud to display and use them daily. It
> also means creating an educational experience that teaches you how they work,
> and how you can modify or repair what you own.
>
> Further, we feel a very strong commitment to making this experience available
> to everyone, from 8 to 88 years old. That?s an especially high hurdle. And
> we?ve done it. The result is the Explorer Jr.? It?s a simple, beautiful
> professional-looking little radio. It?s a historic design, made new. It comes
> in several different colors. You build it yourself. Take it anywhere. When
> you build it and as use it, you?ll learn to fall in love with radio, for the
> first time?or all over again. And it?s just the first in a series.
>
> As a Heath Insider, you are special to us. In a few days, we?ll connect
> www.heathkit.com to our new website where our new products are listed. But
> you stayed with us through this process. And we want to thank you. So we are
> giving you, as an Insider, personal advance notice of the new products and
> new website through this email, before we tell the general public. We want
> you to know we appreciate your enthusiasm and respect for the Heathkit name
> and history.
>
> We know that as an Insider, you want to own the first major kit we?ve issued
> in decades. But please also think about this:
>
> Maybe you have a child, or a granddaughter or grandson, who is ready to start
> their lifelong love for technology, or who will benefit from the enormous
> self-esteem that comes from accomplishment. They deserve an Explorer Jr too.
> (Remember to choose the style they?ll want most?we have six colors). And
> then, please think about gently helping them build it. You might remember the
> parent-and-child graphics on the front of so many Heathkit manuals: We can?t
> count the number of Insiders who fondly remember an adult helping them build
> their first Heathkit when they were young. What a great way to spend time
> with someone you care about.
>
> We do not expect initial stock to last long, so please don?t wait to visit
> our site. Also, please be patient while our new major kit, and new website,
> go from zero to sixty in two seconds. We might have a few bumps in the road
> as we scale up, and we appreciate in advance your patience. We?ll work with
> you to get everything we can right.
>
> We anticipate 30-day shipping time for this week?s orders, and
> we?ll continue to do everything we can to get all kits ordered this Fall to
> you in time for the holidays. You can see and order the Explorer Jr. at
> https://shop.heathkit.com/ now. Please don?t wait to be last: We don?t want
> to disappoint anyone, but most of all, we don?t want to disappoint our
> Insiders. Think about whether there?s anyone who would love one of these kits
> as a holiday present. And thanks for your loyalty and patience as we brought
> back to you Heathkit?s incredible legacy of the world?s best kits again.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andy (President)
> and the team at Heathkit
>
>
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>
>
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> [2]
> http://heathkit.com/http://www.heathkit.com/mailinglist/user/update.php?email=halken
> at comcast.net&code=fe8cb6581fb15c0b973cc0dc1c7a057d
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