[AMRadio] Anybody for the HBR Receiver?

[David Knepper]

If you really want to see the best HBR receivers ever made, contact Tony, 
WV3Z.

His even has a digital read out with memory.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Fish" <rwfish at comcast.net>
To: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <k5xu at comcast.net>; "Discussion of AM Radio in the 
Amateur Service" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Anybody for the HBR Receiver?


> Hi Mike,
> There is a moderately active e-mail list like this one for the HBR
> receiver owners and builders.
> Available at this address:
>
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hbr
>
> There is some historical info available from members there as well. I
> think there is a DVD available from
> one of Ted Crosby's colleagues that covers the history of the receivers
> in great detail. Some one on that list
> should be able to fill you in.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob  K6GGO
>> Something  said in the thread of boat anchor receivers reminded me of
>> the HBR receiver that I once operated at a friend's shack about 35
>> years ago.
>>
>> This one had plug in coils for 80, 40, and 20 meters, and I'm pretty
>> sure also had selectable sideband in addition to AM.
>>
>> Thinking of that very sensitive, great sounding receiver caused me to
>> wonder how many different units Ted Crosby created in his HBR series.
>>
>> I know that he had a four tube receiver published in the first edition
>> of "How to Become a Radio Amateur in the early 1950s, but the one I
>> saw was a later model from the early 60s.
>>
>>
>> Mike Duke, K5XU,
>> Just Curious in Mississippi
>>
>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>>
>>
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