The Heathkit SW-7800 General Coverage Receiver

In this video we'll take a look at the Heathkit SW-7800 General Coverage shortwave receiver.

[jacktuber]

An excellent review! This radio is a real gem. Your collection and radio knowledge are most impressive

[jwrtiger]

I bought the kit and built it. Still have it with all the documentation and it still works. Thanks for posting... brings back good memories.

[royrow]

Great job on this video. I am impressed with your collection. I was a builder and user of many Heathkits from 1967 on, mostly ham gear. I have so many good memories tied to Heathkit products.

[kennynvakehve]

You did a very, very good job on this radio...it looks factory. Thanks for sharing your collection. I would enjoy haveing only half of what you have....73's

[robertrobinson]

Nice review! As information the problem with frequency drift can be pretty much eliminated with an add-on VFO stabilizer. The one I installed is the ELcon EL-34 universal VFO stabilizer.

[ssks]

Awesome collection, thanks for sharing.

[nnkqrp]

Spectacular! Thank you for showing us this piece of history. Many of it's shortcomings are understandable.. hindsight is easy.. but the one thing that surprises me is the local osc drift. Heath must have known. Not possible not to have. And even half-hearted temp compensation results in huge returns. I know. I love to prototype ultra low drift oscillators for funsies. 73 OM

[hestheMaster]

A rare and welcome Kijiji find no doubt. Ebay sellers are hard to find and want big $ for these, when they come up. They're very good units.

[dougkubash]

I built a SW-7800 back in the day. It was required one or more of the circuit boards be 'baked' at a low temp. in the oven - needless to say my mom was not very happy with me! It was a very good receiver that worked very well! I thought my display was a blue/green color but I might be wrong.

[johns]

You produce a very nice video Jeff have watched quiet a few of the ones for various HeathKit radios.

[crooner]

Excellent video. Thank you very much! What is the type of bayonet bulb used for S meter illumination? Mine is out.

I also need a source for the screw-on telescopic whip. It's missing on my example.

Thanks much!

[Steve-GMHUU]

👍 Thank you. I do appreciate these Heathkit reviews.

[greggaieck]

Jeff tranter your Hathkit SW_7800 GENERAL CVERAGE receiver is cool my hobbys are painting pictures and lisining to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my ham license I have 4 shortwave receivers me and my cousin are going to a Swap meet June 5th 2022 Sunday morning at 8 am in Milwaukee

[USMCsniperSEAL]

What is the part number on the antenna or where can I find a good replacement?

[niws]

I just picked one up today from a estate. No manuals or schematics came with it. It powers up and I tuned around on different frequencies and it did pick up a few. Then it started showing erratic tuning in the display, wouldn't change much. Overall it's in fantastic condition. I would like to find a copy of the manual.

[waltschannel]

I think you identified one big reason why Heath got in trouble. Almost tripling the price from one generation of similar product to the next is bad form for retaining your customers. Plus, hands on tech was waning big time in the early 1990s.

[josephmarlow]

i have one also but its out of alignment and only shows it going up to 650 KHz of the frequency then i have to either switch up or down and continue back down something is off. Can you post the alignment proceedures so I can fix this. Thanks Scott

[greggaieck]

My other hobby is lisn to music records and CDs and fmstreo on my Yamaha reciver

[XPFTP]

ok now i want one. hahhaha.. could leave it at ole ladys house. dont have to lug the 756p3 190 miles each way hahaha

[eddiekulp]

I remember it was considered a terrible radio