LOVE the heathkit radio gear! I bought a 301 and a 401, station console, speakers, powersupplies, etc. with the intent of restoring and building a full heathkit station. Eventually realized that that is going to take a LOT longer than I had originally planned so I got a nice little yaesu 857 to actually be 'on the air' and, well, I will continue to clean up the heathkits, and hopefully get them working sooner rather than later. I look forward to using that as my main station, and sticking the 857 in my car...
The SB-301 develops power supply issues when they get as old as they are now.
I have an SB-301 that is going to be a future project, it will be my second. I built an SB-301 back in 1972. Beside the SB-401 there is a Heath SB-303 I picked up a few years ago off E-Bay. The SB-220 has been a project
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?372651-SB-220-FindI picked this up at the local Ham Radio Outlet. It had been modified, and it is now a part of a rehabilitation project, phase two of which will be happening soon.
The Johnson Matchbox came to me in a basket, One of the owners had repainted it and stopped work on the project, I scrounged up a few needed parts and put it back together.
The Kenwood R-599 receiver was DOA, along with the Kenwood TS-820 and the IFR FM/AM 1000S, all are functional now.
The two Heath SB-620s are waiting to be hooked up, one to the SB-303 the other to my SB-301 after it is restored. They are panoramic adapters. Of the radios the only ones bought new are the two Icom radios the IC-745 was purchased in 1986 and has several tens of thousands of hours on it. It was my main SWL and utility radio for decades. The Icom IC-756 was purchased in 1996, and was pressed into service while I was looking for a spare parts 745. The radio had developed a PLL synthesizer problem a filter used in the sub loop had gone bad and is a custom part and no longer available.