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I was digging around in a junkbox and came upon this fancy Cross sleeved box: Opening it revealed the crystals I used with the HW-16 as a Novice (1972).   I think I got the 7050 kHz at AES, used it on mostly 21,150 kHz.  The aluminum crystal was a color burst from an old TV (I didn't have an 80 meter antenna, just used it for alignment).  The other 4 were my main 40 meter Novice band crystals - JAN didn't mark as well as Crystek so I taped the frequencies on the back: When I got my General I borrowed a Knight VFO from the Nicolet High School radio club, I didn't key the VFO so that was kind of the end of break-in for me as the VFO was LOUD.  Ah, the good old days !  :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

 source: https://wd8rif.com/img/hw16_1969.jpg   One thing I forgot to mention in the previous blog post on First Contact was that later that year (1972) I got an HW-16 as an arranged gift for Christmas. Now before I got the HW-16 I remember talking to a student teacher in the radio club room.  He told me to forget the HW-16 and get an Adventurer (the rig I had been using) and a receiver.  However the teacher of our Novice class, Morrie WB9JHW, had an HW-16 and recommended it.  Besides, the HW-16 had a 500 Hz receive filter, break-in, grid block keying,  could muster 75 watts input (maybe on 80/40 :) and would be something I built.  The Adventurer would only be 50 watts and then I'd need a T/R switch plus a ham band receiver.   So I listened to my Elmer and not to the student teacher and got the HW-16.  And had trouble with the HW-16 assembly (the transmitter part which was supposed to be simpler) but eventually figured it out (a defective ban...