Featured Product Archive
The inventions and products featured on these pages were chosen either for their
uniqueness in the RF engineering realm, or are simply awesome (or ridiculous) enough
to warrant an appearance.
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Vintage Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio
This vintage Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio kit just showed up on eBay, and
will be on auction until Monday, April 19th, 2021 (in case you would like to bid).
The listing states it is of 1969 vintage, but the GR-36 shows up in the 1969 Heathkit
catalog; the GR-48 first appears in 1970. Photos of the kit are from the
current GR-48 listing noted above, and photos of the fully built kit are from
an
expired GR-48 listing. In the interest of preserving the memory of Heathkit's
great legacy in the electronics realm, I have been looking for examples of unbuilt
kits on eBay and posting some of the photos here on RF Cafe.
Heathkit products were well known for the completeness of its instruction manuals,
with clearly illustrated instructions. During the writing and editing process, Heathkit
employees were given pre-production kits to take home and build, while annotating
any difficulties or errors encountered. Doing so helped minimize the situation where
the writer inadvertently assumes his own familiarity with the process is shared
by the customer. Having built a few Heathkit products myself in the 1970s when I
did not have a lot of experience with electronics assembly, I can attest to the
user friendliness of the instructions.
Heathkit
stills sells many of its vintage manuals for around $15, which is what you would
pay on eBay.
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Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Kit (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Box (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Parts (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Assembly Manual (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Paperwork (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Brackets (eBay photo)
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Heathkit Spring 1971 Catalog Cover (eBay photo)
Heathkit Spring 1971 Catalog p27 (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Back (eBay
photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Speaker & Transformer
(eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Inside (eBay photo)
Heathkit GR-48 AM/FM Table Radio Internal (eBay photo)
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Contact Info
Heath Company (Heathkit) Operations: PO Box 15, Ottsville, PA 18942 R&D/Mfg:
PO Box 3115, Santa Cruz CA 95063 Phone: +1 (831) 480-4368 E-Mail:
info.2015@2015.heath.company
Posted April 13, 2021
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