RadioBanter - View Single Post - HQ-145 Opinions?

Don Bowey · May 22nd 08, 05:09 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors

On 5/21/08 1:33 PM, in article ,
"Jon Teske" wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2008 21:22:15 -0700, "COLIN LAMB"
wrote:

The HQ-145 is dual conversion, which is an upgrade from the HQ-140.
Otherwise, it is pretty much the same.

Colin K7FM

I have one which I just recapped (I got a "positive smoke test with
the old filter caps.) It's only double conversion on the higher
bands. Its a decent enough receiver for the era, but it is no HQ-180.

It has a decent crystal filter for the era, but nothing like todays
filters.

I agree it is in the chain of HQs 120, 129, 140, 150 each of which was
a small incremental advance of its predecessor (I'm not really
familiar with the HQ-150 and I don't know the differences between it
and the physically similar HQ-140. I suspect the rationale for the
HQ-145 was to have a receiver in that price niche with the electical
characteristics of the HQ-140 (and perhaps the 150) and the styling of
the line with the cast aluminum panel introduced in 1957 with the
HQ-100 (of which I had one of the very first ones when I was a
teenager. It was ordered for Christmas 1956 and advertised about three
months earlier. I think I had one of the first 10 of these. The HQs
100, 145, and 180 were general coverage with band spread in the ham
bands, and the 110 and 170 were ham band only as they existed at the
time. I believe there was also a transmitter and an amplifier with
that panel/cabinet design, but I was in college then and didn't see
much ham gear.

Aside from the replaced filter caps, my HQ-145 is in very nice
electrical and physical shape. I have not used it in actual
communications. Someday I'll find a nice Viking Adventurer...one of
the transmitters I had as a kid, and pair it up with the HQ.

Jon W3JT

Any good ham can whip up a good quality 10-20W transmitter in a few hours
from their QST junkbox. Go for it.