{"id":4734,"date":"2021-10-01T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/chuck-pensons-amazing-new-book-about-heathkit-amateur-products\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:32","slug":"chuck-pensons-amazing-new-book-about-heathkit-amateur-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/chuck-pensons-amazing-new-book-about-heathkit-amateur-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Penson’s Amazing New Book about Heathkit Amateur Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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I was very pleased to read that Chuck Penson WA7ZZE was publishing a book about Heathkit’s amateur radio products. His book is a really great guide, providing a lot of fascinating information, stuff that even those of us who have spent decades with pieces of Heath gear didn’t know. For example, I never knew that an after-market dial had been available for the HW-101. And I didn’t know that the Indian names used for many of the Heath rigs (Comanche, Apache, etc.) resulted from a suggestion from Roger Mace’s wife, who was Native American. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Chuck’s book arrived just as I was putting my DX-40 novice transmitter back on the air after almost 50 years. TRGHS. Who knew that there were TWO versions of the DX-40? I didn’t, but Chuck did, and his book explained how to spot the difference (flashlight through the side vents — I have the very slightly more modern version). <\/b><\/div>\n
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When I opened the book for my first peek inside, the page opened to the QF-1 Q multiplier. I immediately felt guilty about having brutally cannibalized several (well maybe more than several) of these things. But right there in the text Chuck repeats my justification for the carnage: He notes that the tuning cap has a nice 14:1 turns ratio. Exactly. How could I NOT pull those beautiful variable caps out of that old regen device, for re-use in superhet receivers and BITX transceivers? <\/b><\/div>\n

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This is a wonderful book that belongs in the workshop libraries of all those who have used and loved Heathkits over the years. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Order yours here: <\/b><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/wa7zze.com\/amateur-radio<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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Thanks a lot Chuck for making such a great contribution to the radio art and to ham radio literature. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I was very pleased to read that Chuck Penson WA7ZZE was publishing a book about Heathkit’s amateur radio products. His book is a really great guide, providing a lot of fascinating information, stuff that even those of us who have spent decades with pieces of Heath gear didn’t know. For example, I never knew that … Continue reading “Chuck Penson’s Amazing New Book about Heathkit Amateur Products”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,50,149,160,409,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-books","category-heathkits","category-hw-101","category-penson-chuck","category-superhet-receivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4736,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/4736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}