Heathkit Electronics Workshop

This got me into the hobby in 1961. My dad bought me one for Christmas. Little did I realise this was to start me on a lifelong hobby and career in mobile radio.

It had spring contacts on a baseboard and allowed a myriad of circuits to be built without soldering. As I recall, I was DXing on Medium Wave that Christmas. One project was a small transmitter that got me across the house on medium wave. It used the crystal earpiece as a microphone.

See https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/heath_electronic_workshop_19_jk.html

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