Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Benton Harbor Lunch Box

Heathkit used to make these portable units for 10, 6 and 2m AM back when.
Link: http://home.frognet.net/~mcfadden/wd8rif/hw29.htm

I've seen them from time to time at Hamfests, and typically (not always) they look pretty rough with either frayed or incomplete wiring harness, no mic, so on and so forth.

Anyone have a 'complete' unit ? Anyone have one on the air ?

1 comment:

Brad said...

My buddy Mike, WA5PSE, just bought a 6 meter lunchbox, in good condition, at the Claremore Hamfest. He lives up in Indiana and they've got a Lunchbox net on 6 meters. He says they all sound pretty good, considering they're running AM with only a few watts out. He's anxious to get his Lunchbox fixed up for their net. Any 6meter AM activity around here?