There was no rain on friday but it rained off and on saturday ,hard at times. I got pretty wet but it felt good in the heat.Fleamarketiers covered their stuf for a while but nobody left.I cant tell you about sunday because we left saturday night.

Ole Sol has been very busy messing up the radio...for us HFers

Of course you are correct. But since Carl is not interested it's therefore not important - not only for him but for all of us. We just need him to show us the light.

I built many Heathkits as a teenager and later and loved doing so, but that train has left the station long ago.

State of the art is too complicated for a home builder to built at home. Sure, you can build some simple QRP rigs etc, but why not just build them from scratch?

Look at the technical level of present QST articles and those of 40 years ago.

Heathkit aint going to be reborn.

And this is a typical response from you and your name calling...snotty comments with nothing intelligent to support the thread.

Not everyone is as perfect as you who has never been wrong and constantly likes to remind others, as in you capacitor replacement tirades. After all, only dummies would do radio repair differently than the all knowing, almighty radio god KM1H. Then there's your current Heathkit tirades. No kits exist today because Carl says no kits exist. He has spoken. All hail.

Please, continue to bless us with your presence and righteous knowledge. We couldn't live without you.

Well, fully outfitted it's a $5000 transceiver.  I don't know whether it's worth that or not .. but what you and I call a "toy" must differ in some significant ways.  Rather than dismiss it out of hand, why not actually get some information?  It may not be the Wizardee 5000 dxSDX bravissimo! DX350i that all the contesters drool over, but perhaps it would be worth more than a hand wave ... and a dis out of hand.

Just passing this along. Seen on QTH.com, Listing #1067203

My first Heathkit was the Apache transmitter at age 15. It think it took me almost 6 weeks to assemble the entire package. Worked the first time I plugged it in and I still use it today. I better go change all those caps; they're over 50 years old. 

Digital scopes are unsuitable for viewing a complex waveform like an AM envelope.

Best to find a cheapo hamfest special analog scope.  You can usually buy 'em all day long for under $25.  I scored a perfectly working Tek 7604 with 6 or 8 plugins for $50 a few years ago.

I thank you and Bert thanks you as well.   Never would have guessed that it was the VJB! 

Joe, GMS