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06-28-2009, 05:36 PM
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a new boatanchor(heathkit mohawk receiver)
cruising my local kijiji ads recently i came across this heathkit 52lb monster advertised for sale at $75,at the time the ad was already 2 days old so i figured it would be gone.to my surpirse i get a email back telling me the radio is still avaliable but the husband and wife are sick but when their felling better they'll get back to me .well over a week passes and i think to myself the radio is gone or they just forgot about me all together.fast forward to last thursday when i get a email asking if id like to come see the radio.i email them right back saying the time is all wrong since i work 3-11 pm but the weekend would be better.i then setup a appt to meet them on sat and while talking to the guy selling the radio he just gave it to me for free .he ddint want any money just wanted it to goto a good home .ive had one before but this one is almost mint . i also think theres the mods that were printed in electric radio from 97' cause included with the radio i s a copy of the articles that appered in the mag along with the original manual with pencil marks on the schematic that i assume corrospond to the mods mentioned .i really havnt hooked the radio up yet to a good antenna but will be shortly . heres a quick picture of the radio from the kiji ad . i will get some better ones up shortly.
if anyone wants a copy of the mods from electric radio i'd be glad to scan and post them.
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06-28-2009, 08:00 PM
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Sweet!
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06-28-2009, 08:48 PM
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HBO, iirc.
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06-28-2009, 09:56 PM
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Nice! Those folks just KNEW you'd take good care of it.
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06-28-2009, 11:25 PM
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ham bands only sandy.i also have a lead on a sb 301 another hbo heathkit receiver i might look into getting but im not sure yet.
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07-06-2009, 12:29 AM
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The Mohawk receiver (model RX-1) is half of a system, with the matching Heathkit "Apache" ham radio transmitter, model TX-1, being the other half. These units may have had provisions for transceive operation as well; I'm not sure about that, although since they were independently tunable I wouldn't be surprised if they could be used in transceive mode. I've been a ham 37 years and never owned this pair (they were well out of my league, in more ways than one, when I had my Novice ham license--even used these rigs cost more than I could possibly have afforded in those days), but I have seen them advertised in old Heathkit catalogs of the '50s-'60s.
When I first saw the title of this thread I immediately thought of another popular Heathkit receiver of the same era, the "Mohican" model GC-1. This would not technically qualify as a "boat anchor" since it was solid-state and could operate on batteries as well as AC power, but as I said, the title of the thread rang a loud bell in my head, as I also saw the Mohican advertised in Heathkit's catalogs of the '50s-'60s. The TX-1/RX-1 transmitter and receiver were nice pieces of gear (so I gathered from reading about them in Heath catalogs and in QST, the monthly journal of the American Radio Relay League) if you could afford them, but not all amateurs could. (The Mohican was by no means cheap either.) IIRC, these units sold (in kit form) for well over $170; the factory-wired version of each would have probably set the average 1950s amateur back at least $200. These prices are 1950s dollars; I shudder to think what that translates to in today's money.
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