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Heathkit?
4 May 2015 | by 
Some of you might remember me talking about the return of Heathkit.
There has been a lot of mystery surrounding the status of Heathkit, as they popped up a couple of years ago and announced that they were returning. There was a survey posted online for a long time asking people what they wanted to see from a new Heathkit. The new Heathkit management hosted a Q and A session on Reddit speaking more about their plans to return. Then, nothing. No announcements, no news. There was brief mention in December when the folks at Adafruit (a company that supports the MAKER community) were briefly in touch with the new Heathkit, and were told that things are still progressing, and there will be no information on what the products will be until they are ready. All through this, I have been skeptical, as many people would be, since we have heard this story before.
Now, there are changes over at Heathkit.com. They are clearly gearing up for products, and support. They have even started an eBay store where they are selling parts, and some classic equipment.
Cross your fingers.
–Neil W2NDG
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At one time I owned an HW8 and my first kit was a Heathkit Electronic Workshop. I do hope they make a successful return.
As owner of several heathkit products i’d like to see them coming back, it would be good for the radio community, hoping for some dealers in Europe too then.
best 73
Frank
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http://www.heathkit.com not working or not set up…
Also no Ebay store found…
Hmmmmmm
~AF7U
Was there yesterday. This tells me they are making more changes.
Here is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20150409153111/https://www.heathkit.com/heathkit.html
and, here is the eBay store (which was linked from the site yesterday): http://stores.ebay.com/datapro
Maybe something is coming very soon.
–Neil W2NDG