Oh, and when they finish their store, I know where I'm visiting the next time
I'm in the Bay Area!
Charlie AA4CF
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:45 AM, AA4CF <aa4cf at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> ____________________________________________________
>> Heathkit ? is a registered trademark, and Explorer?, Explorer Jr.?, Heathkit
>> Jr.?, and Heathkit? Insider? are trademarks, of Heath Company. (c) 2015 All
>> rights reserved. Heathkit? in all uses, the Heathkit name, the Heathkit
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>>
>>
>> Links:
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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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