What Heathkit did you build?

I used to build their oscilloscopes, the OM-3 I think. I built several and sold them at cost. I just enjoyed building them.

When it came to VTVMs, I was an Eico snob.

The last Heathkit I built was a SB-220 power amplifier in 1972.

VOM, 5MHz 1-trace O-scope, RC gear.

Let's see - I built the model 295 colour tv, IT-12 audio signal tracer, logic probe, IT-28 Capacitor Checker (Wheatstone Bridge with Magic Eye!), IM-16 Solid State Voltmeter, AJ15 tuner, and a few more that escape me right now.

The colour TV lasted from 1969 (built just in time so we could watch the first moon landing) to around the mid 90s. The other gear is still in use in my shop. I find the Heathkit logic probe to be superior to my HP (several) and Kurz-Kasch logic probes that I've acquired over the years. Easier to see, and the response seems more valid.

John :-#)#

I built the VTVM about a decade before that ('67, maybe '68) and the SB-301 ham receiver a year later.

I was too young too get in on all that.

I do have a greyplate Heathkit IT-11 capacitor checker here that needs some restoration. It's got magic eye tube, cool! Unfortunately the 6U5 in mine is on its last legs, and originals are silly expensive.

There's probably an a adapter to use a 1629 or something.

When I order the vtvm I actually wanted to order there more modern digital voltmeter however they were out of stock. I was a little bit disappointed a t the time but in hindsight it was a great project and I learned a lot. Of course that more modern DVM would now be available for like 7.50 on amazon. com

AA-14 amplifier, AR-14 receiver, GR-? VHF portable receiver.

I built an EICO VTVM kit ~1956.

Several years later, Dynaco (?) PAT-1 preamplifier and also an FM tuner. ...Jim Thompson

Wow, that thing is a beast.

Yes, pretty heavy, and not recommended to get the voltages on the fingers. It is still in a working condition.

I never built a Heathkit, but I owned a Heathkit VTVM back in the 70's. Most of my old test gear now is Eico. No particular reason, but I did always like the Eico gear and still do. Besides my Eico stuff, I have a Sencore oscope and a Sylvania tube tester. That tube tester is the only test gear I still have from the 60's and 70's. Glad I saved it now.

I've never built a Heathkit, Knight-kit, Eico kit, or even one from Sparkfun.

The first kit I ever built was an AADE capacitance meter, purchased in 2015 when Neil was too sick to assemble them. (May light perpetual shine upon him.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Sorry for the loss of your son (?)

Thanks for the good wishes--they're the basis of so much of our common life. Fortunately my son Simon remains in good health, as do my wife and both of our daughters.

I was talking about Neil Hecht the AADE guy, who died the summer before last.

I didn't know him, but it's a nice meter for sure.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Or $1 and a coupon at HF.

Neil was my lead at one time in Huntsville. Smart guy. I learned a few things from him. And there were a few things that he never taught anyone.

Dan

Dan

I still have my Heathkit oscilloscope. I should see if I can get it running again. I smell a weekend project brewing...

My first Heathkit project was an AM radio. Pretty sure I still have that too. Hmm, I might be a pack rat, now that I think about it.

First and only was an AM radio microphone, sometime in the mid-80s when I was just kid. It was a long skinny board slid into a clear plastic tube with perforated endcaps. Ran off button batteries.

I remember it took a freakin month for that thing to arrive. Every time the UPS truck drove into our yard I wondered if they had my kit. The box was pretty beat up but everything was in there.

Still have it in storage, but haven't powered it for perhaps 25 years or more.