"Michael Black" wrote in message
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"Uncle Peter" ) writes:
"K3HVG" wrote in message
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that they didn't use many (if at all) paper capacitors. Finally, FYI,
Heath never made an upscale general coverage receiver. Good hunting.


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One of the ones I always wondered about came in the sixties and I'm
pretty sure was still in the catalog in 1971 when I would have seen
my first Heath catalog. It was a general coverage receiver, and looked
a lot like the average low end receiver. But it used an IF in the 1600KHz
range, using a two-crystal lattice filter. I've always been curious
about it because of that high IF which obviously would make an improvement
for the highest band in terms of image rejection compared to the usual
cheap SW receiver. But I've never really seen anything about how the
receiver was generally. A higher IF suggests something better, but
it might have just been as bad as the usual low end SW receiver.

Micahel VE2BVW



You're thinking of the GR-54 model which has a 1682 KHz IF frequency.
Tuning range is 180-420 & 550-1550 KHz and 2-30 MHz (notice the
coverage gap between 1.55 and 2 MHz). I bought one in the fall of
1966; price was about $85 US + shipping.

Quite sensitive and, with the high IF frequency, images are a non-issue
unlike the
typical low-end 455 KHz receivers so definitely a step up.

Mine still works but sits on a shelf in a closet. With no digital readout
it's
just too hard to find anything on the not-too accurate slide rule dial.

Regards,
John