[TenTec] Ten Tec Tubes sounds great...

[Robert Weingaertner]

Yes, Al Kahn was president of Electrovoice at one time. There was
an article about him in Worldradio a couple of years ago. Legend
has it that he supplied Heath with  a load of parts when they were
just getting into the kit business after WW II.

The Heath DX 60 series was a fine transmitter. I still have mine
from my novice days. I put it on CW every now and then. My 
companion receiver is a Hammarlund HQ-100A, good for general
coverage, but a bit broad and drifty for serious CW work.
I'm looking around for a better CW receiver from the same
period, like maybe a Drake 2B or 2C with the Q multiplier.

     73,   Bob WB2VUF


Simmons, Reid W wrote:
> 
> Actually 90 watts AM and CW, 80 thru 10.  All in all a VERY nice rig and my
> next Boatanchor acquisition.
> 
> Oh, and in a way this is Ten Tec related.  The founder of Ten Tec can be
> traced back to that part of the country.  I believe he was involved with
> Electro-Voice which is in Buchanan, Michigan, about 10 - 15 miles south of
> the Heath company.
> 
> Reid, K7YX
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   James D. Duffer [mailto:jduffer@mnsinc.com]
> Sent:   Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:47 AM
> To:     Larry Kayser
> Cc:     tentec@contesting.com
> Subject:        Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec Tubes sounds great...
> 
> Larry Kayser wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of CW rigs, a long while back I saw an advertisement in a QST for
> a
> > Heathkit CW only transmitter, VFO, All bands (back then 80, 40, 20, 15,
> 10)
> > and a single 6146 final.  The rig was to match a receiver of that day,
> > similar in size to the HR-10.  Has anyone ever seen one of these things?
> >
> > Larry
> > VA3LK
> 
> Larry, you may be referring to the Heath Kit DX-60.  The DX-60 was the
> Novice transmitter during the 60's, xtal controlled, 75 watts etc.
> While remembered as a CW rig it did have "AM" capability using
> controlled carrier modulation, there was a mike connection on the lower
> left hand corner!
> 
> It was my Novice rig, and I still have it "somewhere"  I used a Heathkit
> SB-300 receiver with it and had lots of fun in 1967 as WN4FIO.
> 
> 73, Jim  WD4AIR
> 
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