Point-to-point construction of a Heathkit stereo preamplifier (AA-141) (1962)Īfter the success of the oscilloscope kit, Heath went on to produce dozens of Heathkit products. In 1947, Heath introduced its first electronic kit, the O1 oscilloscope that sold for US$50 (equivalent to $607 in 2021) – the price was unbeatable at the time, and the oscilloscope went on to be a huge seller. After World War II, Anthony decided that entering the electronics industry was a good idea, and bought a large stock of surplus wartime electronic parts with the intention of building kits with them. In 1935, Howard Anthony purchased the then-bankrupt Heath Company, and focused on selling accessories for small aircraft. The company reorganized and moved from Chicago to Niles, Michigan. Starting in 1926 it sold a light aircraft, the Heath Parasol, in kit form. The Heath Company was founded as an aircraft company in 1911 by Edward Bayard Heath with the purchase of Bates Aeroplane Co, soon renamed to E.B. As of 2022, the company has a live website with newly designed products, services, vintage kits, and replacement parts for sale.
The company announced in 2011 that they were reentering the kit business after a 20-year hiatus but then filed for bankruptcy in 2012, and under new ownership began restructuring in 2013. The lighting control business was sold around 2000. After closing that business, the Heath Company continued with its products for education, and motion-sensor lighting controls. Heathkit manufactured electronic kits from 1947 until 1992. The products over the decades have included electronic test equipment, high fidelity home audio equipment, television receivers, amateur radio equipment, robots, electronic ignition conversion modules for early model cars with point style ignitions, and the influential Heath H-8, H-89, and H-11 hobbyist computers, which were sold in kit form for assembly by the purchaser. Heathkit is the brand name of kits and other electronic products produced and marketed by the Heath Company. At present, only a remnant of the company remains under the name Heathkit Educational Systems, still located in Benton Harbor, Michigan.First kit, OL-1 oscilloscope, originally introduced in 1947. Heathkit (then called Zenith Data Systems) moved away from kits and the final kit was sold in 1991. In years to follow, from the 1950s into the 1980s, electronic gear became too complex to build from a pile of parts in a garage.
#Heathkit cr 1 mods#
The gear, especially the older transmitters, is usually pretty easy to work on, and there are a million mods out.
"We won't let you fail," was one of their slogans. This dictated a certain approach to mechanical and electrical design. Unless a piece of gear was really complex, which it hardly ever was, the ham boxes came in kit form only. Heath always had two ham lines, one aimed at beginners, and one for the old-timer looking for a good rig at a good price. Kit building became a popular pastime, not to mention a way to save some big bucks on equipment. Unfortunately the founder (Edwin Heath) died in a plane crash testing a competitor's model, after which they never released their own model.Īfter the war, Heath got into electronics with a low-cost oscilloscope kit using military surplus parts. This remarkable company began in Michigan around 1926 by marketing an airplane in kit form.
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