I purchased an HW-8 in April 2024. \u00a0By all accounts it is stock with no mods, just the way I wanted it. \u00a0I did one minor repair to the meter circuit (cold solder joint), but have left well enough alone. \u00a0It is fun to operate and I have made many contacts with it. \u00a0However, there is no doubt it could use some realignment and who knows what else. \u00a0With old parts that may break and are irreplaceable is it worth the risk? \u00a0I am not sure if it would be a good idea, but armed with a retired accountants brain, a digital volt meter and a soldering iron I just might be crazy enough to jump in. \u00a0If there is an HW-8 for sale on eBay for parts only the results will be obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I purchased an HW-8 in April 2024. \u00a0By all accounts it is stock with no mods, just the way I wanted it. \u00a0I did one minor repair to the meter circuit (cold solder joint), but have left well enough alone. \u00a0It is fun to operate and I have made many contacts with it. \u00a0However, there\u2026 Continue Reading ‘HW-8 to rework or not?’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hw-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}