HI ed,   
      
   On Sun 2012-Apr-15 18:10, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
      
   RW>AK>though they were an AM receiver, if you turned the BFO on and then set   
   the   
   RW>AK>offset + or - about 1 KC you could listen to SSB with them. I spent many   
   RW>AK>Late Watches just DXing the bands with the big receiving antennas in   
   Puert   
   RW>AK>Rico on a spare receiver while waiting for traffic to come in.   
      
   RW>EV> IMHO there is nothing wrong with turning on the BFO on a 'AM' RX.   
      
   RW>EV> My first RX was a Hallicrafters S-38E, it had a switch to turn on a   
   RW>EV> BFO to listen to CW or SSB (if you could call the circuitry in the   
   RW>EV> S-38E a BFO) IIRC it was just a wire routed around some sections in   
   RW>EV> the chassis that got 'switched in'.   
      
   RW>YEp, my first receivers were general coverage types, to   
   RW>receive cw or ssb one had to engage the bfo.  First straight receiver I   
   owned   
   RW>which had a usb lsb rx position was a   
   RW>HEathkit sb-303.  I never minded it that much .   
      
   EV> I got a Drake 2-B later on to use with a Heathkit "Apache" TX-1.    
      
   EV> Neither one of them were New, just 'new' to me.   
      
   EV> Both of them are nice rigs.   
      
   YEp, they were.  I had, first non general coverage, but ham   
   bands only, still had teh bfo was a Heath hr-10b receiver.   
      
   Interesting story with that receiver, I called it my yoyo   
   receiver.   
      
   I had a Hamarlund, but it was at my parents' house, I was   
   married to 1st xyl and going to college, it stayed home at   
   the folks' just because I didn't think I'd have room for it. I traded a guitar   
   amp for something else, and this hEath   
   hr-10.  I eventually got the Hamarlund from the folks'   
   house, ended up selling it, but turned the HEath hr-10 on to my wife's little   
   brother so that he could listen adn learn   
   the code.   
      
   HE traded it to somebody else, don't know what for.  Anyway, the guy he traded   
   it to owed me for something, i think help   
   with a recording project, but don't recall waht, and didn't   
   have the dough, so he gave me a bass guitar he wasn't using, and this heathkit   
   receiver.   
      
   I sold that receiver at a tailgater then, i didn't want it,   
   I had the sb-303, and by that point the Radio shack dx-160   
   gc receiver.   
      
   A few years later I had no radio gear at all except for 2   
   meters, and a buddy of mine gave me this hEathkit hr-10b.   
   I'd had a friend make some marks on the chasis inside a lot   
   of my gear of that period, so I had a friend of mine look   
   inside the hr-10 I got from the old guy, and sure enough, it was that same   
   hr-10 that kept bouncing back to me.   
      
   The Drake 2b and 2c were much better receivers.  Iirc they   
   at least had an gac circuit, which the hEath hr-10 didn't.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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