Some of the deficiencies, such as the lack of warmup-time protection, can be rather easily fixed with no-holes mods. Others may require a bit more work but are often worth doing for various reasons.
It is far from a design deficiency as the warm up requirement is clearly mentioned in at least 3 places in the manual. Have you even bothered to read it?? If it was so important why was a mod not published by an owner?
Also note that I have
stated several times that any reply I wrote to a customer as Service Manager had to be approved by the Sales Manager/later VP of Sales who was totally against anything negative about the company and was responsible for all of the BS including what I was "forced" to write. Thankfully he was canned for other reasons.
Maybe owners back then were better at reading the manual. BUT a new owner today may skip that step and cause short tube life. Companies back then werent planning on 50+ years service life and their products becoming collector prizes and fully functional and enjoyable to use either here in 2021.
And more negative hits from you:
Interesting rig. Note that the mechanical dial calibration is only 5 kHz while the competition (even Heathkit!) offered 1 kHz, and that CW sidetone and a crystal calibrator were extra-cost options. And of course no sharp filter for CW.
At least the VFO was consistent on all bands. Only radios with a PTO/LMO/etc offered a 1 kHz readout and those were very few in 1967 when the engineering started and National was putting very little money into product development.
That said, I think it's important to point out various design/feature deficiencies, as well as the historical context of any old radio, for a number of reasons:
Historical context is valuable - particularly accurate historical context. The closest competition to the NCX-1000 was probably the Hallicrafters SR-2000, which has its own pros and cons. Making such comparisons is part of our history, not an "insult" to anyone or anything.
It's interesting that there are some folks who consider ANY comment on a particular rig's shortcomings to be a personal attack and insult, even though the comment is 100% accurate. It's as if the rigs of the past are sacred icons that must NEVER be spoken of in ANY way that is negative in the least. Anyone who DARES is attacked for....BLASPHEMY!
Unfortunately 100% accuracy is few and far between when it comes from those without hands on knowledge of a product, and especially of one very complicated.
Unfortunately also is someone who considers any attempt to offer a statement, question, opinion, or disagreement is accused of a personal attack or insult....over and over and is
unable to ever admit being wrong.With any other brand those who are considered experts on those products actually own them, restore them, post repair/alignment details on them, and even have a web page dedicated to it and help others as a mentor. You do nothing but complain about National since I worked there and you have been hateful for decades since.
You dont own a National anything, offer absolutely zero help to others trying to service them, BUT you are always ready to complain non stop when National or myself pop up on your troll alert. And its not just on eHam.
Unfortunately eHam lets you get away with it over and over.
Why that is, I don't know. Makes no sense at all.
That is a stretch even for you. One word describes you.....vindictive.....since I challenged you decades ago. Talk about a
vendetta from one who is unable to stop.
Carl
National Radio 1963-69
Service Tech, Service Manager, Senior Engineering Aide
Member Of HRO-500, NCL-2000, NCX-1000 Design Teams
Still servicing most all models from the 30's