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WHAT WAS IT? The "Twoer" was part
of a family of lunchbox styled transceivers introduced by Heathkit
in the 1960s. In their day they were capable and popular radios.
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Although I never actually built or owned one, I coveted one for some time. At one point I bought the manual to see if I'd enjoy building it, but I never did get around to forking out the £26 required for the kit! The HW30, like its 6m and 10m cousins, was a 5W AM crystal controlled transmitter with a tunable super-regenerative receiver. The "lunchbox" was the inspiration for similar rigs I built and used in the 1970s, including one that I never kept that had a similar form factor and general arrangement (crystal controlled TX and tuneable RX. My version was all transistorised and used a superhet. By modern
standards these receivers would not be considered suitable to
use
in the often crowded bands of today but in their day, when occupancy
was low they were fine. All were mains powered, so were complete
"ready to go" stations in a box. The others in the
family were the HW-19 10-Metre "Tener" Transceiver
and the HW-29A
6-Metre "Sixer" Transceiver. I think there may have been an 11m (CB
band) version in the ealry days of USA CB. When first sold in the UK in 1966 the price was £26. A full review appeared in RadCom for April 1966 by G3HRH.
Internal Construction (LHS top of chassis, RHS bottom of chassis) LINKS |
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diagram of the HW30