Topband: Converting Heath DX-60 to 160M

[Lee Boulineau]

 GM Jeff,
Maybe an easier exercise would be to convert one of the 60s to 160m only?  This might be especially useful if you are going with crystals only. 
Initial thoughts are: 
Add parallel capacitance to both C22 and C24.
Rewind L3. and L2 for 160. 
L1 may or may not need to be altered. The oscillator circuit is a Pierce circuit which usually behaves pretty well. L2 is likely the main tuning element for the second amp/doubler circuit so only L2 may need to be rewound.
You can bypass the bandswitch; that simplifies matters a lot. :


73 de Lee KX4TT ZUT




    On Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 12:43:19 PM EDT, Radio KH6O <radio.kh6o at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I have a couple of Heath DX-60 transmitters. I'd like to convert one of
them to 160. This would involve re-doing the 80m section of the rig.

Does anyone have a step-by-step article to do this? I did an internet
search but found nil. Maybe one of the magazines (QST, 73, CQ, HR) might
have run an article on this way back when.

73,
Jeff KH6O / 6

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