Showing posts with label HW-101. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HW-101. Show all posts
Friday, July 11, 2025

How many of you guys have changed the clutch on a Heathkit HW-101 (or similar rig)?

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That circular thing on the right is the "Plastic Clutch" on the Heathkit HW-101.   Mine dried out and shattered when I pushed the ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

A Nice Quick HW-101 Restoration Video

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  This video is almost enough to get me to work on my old HW-101.  Pete N6QW has been working on an HW-32A monobander. Some of the info in ...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Farhan's Amazing Knack Story: From a Boyhood SW Receiver to the Design of the sBITX SDR

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The presentation starts at about the 4 minute point.  I think if I were only allowed to watch one YouTube video in the next year, I'd ma...
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Friday, October 1, 2021

Chuck Penson's Amazing New Book about Heathkit Amateur Products

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  I was very pleased to read that Chuck Penson WA7ZZE was publishing a book about Heathkit's amateur radio products.  His book is a real...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

The SolderSmoke Team Talks to the River City Amateur Radio Communication Society (Video)

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Pete and I had a great time speaking to this really nice California ham radio club (video of the event appears above).  Special thanks to cl...
Monday, November 9, 2020

Improving the Product Detector in the Lafayette HA-600A

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Diode product detector on the left, BFO amp in the right As noted in an earlier blog post, I didn't like the sound of SSB and CW when ...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

VK2SJA's Minima in a Realistic DX-100 Case

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Steve, VK2SJA, is doing to a Realistic DX-100 what I have been thinking about doing to a Heathkit HW-101.   With this kind of encourageme...
Monday, August 12, 2013

SolderSmoke Podcast #154

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SolderSmoke Podcast 154 is available for download! http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke154.mp3 August 11, 2013 -- Alligators!  Real ...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Soul in the Old Machine: HW-101 Saved From Workshop Cannabilism

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Most of our correspondents did not like the idea of me trying to convert my Heath HW-101 into a BITX-101.  But, thinking that I still mi...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

HB-101 ? BITX-101?

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    OK, so I've been wanting to build a BITX-20 for a long time.  Then Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith sent me a nice 9 MHz f...
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