[SCCC] SCCCORE March Edition Now Available

[Jim Price]

I was part of the Heathkit brigade as well.  I had an HX-11 which was a DX-20 with a new designator (1963).  And after I got my General, I added an HG-10 VFO.  But my real "goodie" was an RME-6900 receiver!  It was hot.  And it had that weighted slide rule dial that just "felt" good when you spun the knob!  I would probably still have that receiver if it had had General Coverage, i.e. to include the shortwave bands - like an HQ-180.  

Early days....
73 - Jim K6ZH (was WN6DPV / WB6DPV in Santa Maria, CA starting in 1963)


-----Original Message-----
From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Bill Shell - N6WS
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 11:35 AM
To: sccc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SCCC] SCCCORE March Edition Now Available

As a novice, I do remember working guys using an Adventurer or Challenger, but I think the most popular rigs in 1960 were the DX20, DX35, and DX40 transmitters by Heathkit.  I remember after hearing 'TX is DX', I would always be guessing which numbers were going to follow. Of course, back then my novice code speed was slow enough that I had time to think between characters.

73, Bill
N6WS

On 3/1/2023 10:05 AM, Bruce Horn wrote:
> I would have loved to have started out with a Johnson Ranger, like one of my buddies had, but spent the first 11 months of my non-renewable Novice license trying to get a surplus ARC-5 transmitter working. Finally, gave up and my mother agreed to pay for a Heathkit DX-60. Later added the companion Heathkit VFO when I upgraded to General.
>
> 73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Harrison" <k0xp at k0xp.com>
> To: "SCCC Reflector" <sccc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 9:54:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [SCCC] SCCCORE March Edition Now Available
>
> On 3/1/2023 8:38 AM, Dennis Younker NE6I wrote:
>> The March poll... also available.
>>
>>    
>>
>> 73, Dennis NE6I
> The poll had Gonset(!!!), Hallicrafters, Hammarlund, and Heathkit... 
> but left out JOHNSON???!!! I bet far more of us started out with 
> Johnsons, than all of those first three combined! It was years before 
> I could even find one of those others that I could afford! I still 
> rember going to Henry Radio on Olympic Blvd. and slobbering over the 
> very few that were on the used-equipment shelf. OHHH, the shame of it 
> all, to be so forgotten;  RIP, E. F. Johnson... =8-/
>
> Steve, K0XP
>
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73, Bill
N6WS

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