On 24/06/2013 19:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 24/06/13 19:28, alan wrote:



I like the way they assume that every radio ham also participates in
fox hunting.

Exactly WHAT on EARTH are you talking about?

Heathkit, it's me, Cathy come home?

(Sorry - but it makes as much sense to me.)

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On 24/06/13 19:28, alan wrote:
On 17/06/2013 20:29, wrote:
On Monday, June 17, 2013 1:14:41 PM UTC+1, S Viemeister wrote:
http://www.heathkit.com/heathkit-faq.html

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I like the way they assume that every radio ham also participates in
fox hunting.

Exactly WHAT on EARTH are you talking about?

A Fox hunt is a direction finding exercise as if the hunted was a Fox..

Well .. sort of...



It looks like they are going to produce a morse code generator kit at
around $1000 or a battery/resistor/LED kit for $100.





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On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:14:41 -0400, S Viemeister
wrote:

http://www.heathkit.com/heathkit-faq.html

They always were grossly over-priced this side of the pond. Whether
there were too many middlemen or just greedy retailers, I don't know.

On Monday 17 June 2013 13:14 S Viemeister wrote in uk.d-i-y:

http://www.heathkit.com/heathkit-faq.html

For the nostalgia:

http://www.heathkit.org.uk/index.html

There's a 1976 catalogue there.

Alarm clock (earlier than the one I made) £45 in 8% VAT - that's about £274
according to the BoE inflation calculator. Blimey...

But I am a little suspcious of that as according to the same, £100 in 2003
is £133 in 2012. But I'm damn sure food and fuel have inflated more than
that in the last few years alone.


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On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:49:38 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

On Monday 17 June 2013 13:14 S Viemeister wrote in uk.d-i-y:

http://www.heathkit.com/heathkit-faq.html

For the nostalgia:

http://www.heathkit.org.uk/index.html

There's a 1976 catalogue there.

Alarm clock (earlier than the one I made) £45 in 8% VAT - that's about £274
according to the BoE inflation calculator. Blimey...

But I am a little suspcious of that as according to the same, £100 in 2003
is £133 in 2012. But I'm damn sure food and fuel have inflated more than
that in the last few years alone.

Never built a Heathkit kit, but I think the RS LED clock modue was somewhere
around 20 quid. By the time it was in a vero two tone grey case with a
transformer, switches and speaker (for the buzzer) I reckon I'd 'spent' close to
45 quid - no dodgy fake teak on mine though

Could have been a couple of years later than '76 though.


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