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| Reviews Summary for Heathkit HW-2036A |
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Reviews: 4
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Average rating: 4.5/5
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MSRP: $269.95 (1978)
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Description: 2-Meter FM synthesized transceiver, 10 watt.
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Product is not in production.
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VK2CU
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Rating: 5/5
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Aug 27, 2011 06:37
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Nice Radio
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Just bought one for $20. Gave it a tune-up and wow! It was kind of OK to start with, but a tweak really bought it to life. 0.15uV for 12db Sinad is not too shabby for a 1970's radio. The transmitter managed 18w (it was 5w). The selectivity is good too, and audio quality is nice with the largish speaker. VK land has a problem with Pagers on 148MHz and Ethnic broadcasters on 152MHz and modern Amateur radios with wideband varactor tune RX's can have problems in cities, but not the older radios like the Heathkit.
Great American engineering, all metal construction and chrome plating. This radio will still be going long after the plastic stuff. And if something releases the magic smoke, you can fix it!
73's
Justin VK2CU
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K8UV
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Rating: 4/5
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May 7, 2010 10:08
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Keeps on Ticking
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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Picked this up at Marshal, Michigan swap this year from off a ham friends table. Had the rig, matching power supply and Heath 40 vhf amp, Everything in very good conditon all for $40.00. I really wanted the amp, forget the rest. But I put the rig on the air during one of our usual 6.475 simplex roung tables. It hears very well and I got great reports (without the amp). Actually the rig won't drive the amp, may be why it was sold? The amp works on my TS-700 however. Love this little rig, lots of fun with an old rig. I would get one if it is in the $20.00 range for sure! Love the hardwired in hand mic.
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K6LO
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 3, 2009 22:00
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Sensible
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I still have the one I built in 1980. It has three tunable CTCSS positions, which now nearly 30 years later I am finally using. I love every thing about the radio, including the signature 833.333333333 cycle tone.
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WB3KWW
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Rating: 4/5
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Jul 21, 2006 11:07
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Great Audio
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I built and owned one of these rigs in the late 70s and early 80s. It was a fantastic rig; with a 5/8 colinear, I never had any problem hearing/hitting repeaters within reasonable distance, and always got compliments on my audio quality. I rewired the touchtone mike to be battery-less, so the mike was light and did not create a problem while driving.
The only negative things about the rig that I can recall: It had only one preset and one custom offset, and the adjacent signal rejection was not quite up to some of the more crowded repeater farm areas around New York City. Also, as I remember, it did not have PL (which, at the time I owned it, was only a problem around NYC).
The morning I found that someone had stolen the rig from my (locked) trunk, was one of my saddest moments in hamming (Heath was no longer selling them at that point, or I would have bought another kit immediately).
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