Archive for the ‘Heathkit’ Category

Surfin’: Getting Heathkit Manuals and Getting Smart

Friday, January 9th, 2009

This week, Surfin’ looks for old Amateur Radio manuals online and finds a ham radio in a recent flick.

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Old Heathkit Manuals Forced Offline

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Heathkit manual

“Even though the company (Heathkit) stopped making and selling kits back in 1992, it apparently just sold the copyrights on its old manuals to another company, which is going around forcing any old manuals offline and demanding people buy them instead…”

Read all about it here.