From: "RHF"
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 21 Nov 2005 07:32:44 -0800
Subject: Think about Longwave (LW) and AM/MW Radio Reception and Mobile
{Car} DXing

Greg,

No I do not have the HeathKit Mohican GC-1A any more.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Heathkit-GC-1A-M...0QQitemZ583260
3589

It was a single conversion Radio with a 455 kHz IF.

Note - The HeathKit GR-78 was a follow-on to the GC-1A.
http://www.cpinternet.com/~ki0le/pages/gr78.htm
http://www.member.uni-oldenburg.de/o...tc/GR78_Schema
tic.jpg

I thought it was 'something' back then; buy a
Grundig Satellit 800 Millennium is a far far better
Radio.

RadioShack Realistic DX-394 "MOD'ed" by Low Bander
would be a better use of your money - IMHO
http://cgi.ebay.com/REALISTIC-DX-394...ET_W0QQitemZ58
32923476


hope this helps ~ RHF
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Yes, I'm sure the Sat 800 is a better radio. So is my DX-440, no doubt.
But I like the looks of that Mohican - I'd like to pick up one in good
condition.

Greg

Greg ) writes:

Yes, I'm sure the Sat 800 is a better radio. So is my DX-440, no doubt.
But I like the looks of that Mohican - I'd like to pick up one in good
condition.

We're talking about the transistorized one from the eraly sixties? I suspect
it was never very good. That was an era when they were still learning about
transistors, and a lot of those early transistor shortwave radios were not
very good.

There was a "sequel" to it in the late sixties or early seventies, I
want to say the GR-78 but that may be a wrong memory, that was similarly
intended to be a portable but not like the "all band portables" of that time
that you'd buy at the drugstore. I don't know how good it was, but it
at least kicked in a second conversion stage on the highest band to
reduce image problems.

Michael

MB - Yes that was the HeathKit GR-78 and it was dual-conversion
above 18 MHz.

As you correctly noted the HeathKit CG-1A Mohican Receiver had it's
'limitations' being an early 1960s generation 10+ Transistor Radio.

The HeathKit GR-78 Receiver came along in the 1970s and was
a little better Radio.

But for Looks the HeathKit CG-1A Mohican had all those Chrome Knobs
- - - A Real Pretty Radio )

FWIW - I have two HeathKit GR-78 Receivers down in Sub-Basement # 3.
One is a Project Radio with the Manual and the other is a Parts Radio.

The Two are available as a Set for $200 - Includes Shipping in the
48 States. ? ? ? Any Takers ? ? ?

Note - Project Radio = Needs Repairs and a lot of Time and Work.

Note - Parts Radio = Beyond Repair [.]

that's all folks ~ RHF