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Heath Kit

I still have my AR-1500 receiver, and it's in use. Had to replace the power supply caps, but it still sounds great!

-Frank Foti
 
I built a Heathkit "two-er" whne I was in Civil Air Patrol back in the 60's and a Heathkit audio mixer, and a Heathkit CB. Boy they were fun and worked pretty well too!
 
Heath was great.Built amps.test equip. and other gear.My late sisters friend built a color tv back in the early 70's.The set worked for years until about 8 years ago when the Pix tube went bad.Those were the good ole days.Heath,Knight kit,Eico plus Archer at the Shack.
 
I had forgotten about Eico, I built a CB set kit there and Knight, I built some Walkie Talkies. Golly it was fun to melt solder back then!
 
Kelly Watts said:
I had forgotten about Eico, I built a CB set kit there and Knight, I built some Walkie Talkies. Golly it was fun to melt solder back then!
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Never built a Heathkit, Knightkit or EICO, but I did build a number of Dynaco, SWPTC and PAIA kits. Dynaco was the most refined, with products such as the PAT-4 and PAT-5 pre-amps and their tube and transistor power amps being some of the best in the field at the time. Their very clearly thought out construction manuals were some of the best I worked with.

SWTPC (Southwest Technical Products Corporation) had some bleeding-edge circuitry (Tiger .01 was a killer audio power amp!) but their packaging/chassis design was elementary, some of which led to circuit instability. :-(

PAIA was mainly for analog synthesizer module cards that were really fun to chain together. You could build a pretty passable audio processor with them :) I think they are still around.

These days I just play with Synthmaker, and do it all in software. Haven't burned my fingers yet. ;-)

Kind Regards,
David
 
I forgot about Dynaco and PAIA.I do remember Radio Electronics and probably Electronics illustrated and Popular Electronics had Build-This on PAIA kits.Also they had Ramsey kits in mags too.Heath was number one in the business then .Now I dont know whats out there.
 
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