[Boatanchors] OLD HOMEBREW TRANSMITTERS

[Price Smith]

Hi Bill and all,

In 1963, I decided to build on of Ted Crosby's (W6TC) receivers. I built the 
HBR-16 with
the Eddystone dial.. It has set in my basement for around 40+ years. I 
brought it up and took it out of the
cabinet. I had made coils for 10, 20 and 40 meters. The chassis has very 
minimal corrosion. Mainly
the results of an old habit, smoking, UGH. The control labels were the old 
DATEK labels. I took them
off and I will do a nicer job.
I fired it up and it works GREAT. By the way, I have a complete set of 
diagrams, templates, coil info,
hints and just about everything published.
That was my only receiver I had, with a homebuilt KW for a number of years. 
I worked a lot of DX
on CW with "Her".

Best 73..........Price W0RI... first license 59 years ago W0CKC, now the 
club call of "The St. Louis
Lowbanders Club".



> Those old ARRL project radios described here in a few posts sure bring 
> back
> a lot of memories.  The best part is that they were designed to work by 
> hams
> who knew what they were doing.  If you built it as described you could not
> go wrong.
>
> When I was 17 I built the 813 rig from the 1957 (I think) 
> Handbook....6AG7/
> 2E26/813.  It worked right from the first power-up.  I learned a lot
> building that rig and had loads of enjoyment for several years.  The 
> plates
> on the 813 used to glow cherry red at times because of mis-tuning and
> mis-matching, but that old tube soldiered on with good output regardless.