[Boatanchors] Beautiful HBR-17 Dual Conversion Homemade Receiver

[Radio AI2Q]

Tenets, not tenants, please.

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Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex



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From: "Whitebear1122" <whitebear1122 at comcast.net>
To: "Boatanchors Mail List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 3:56 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Beautiful HBR-17 Dual Conversion Homemade Receiver


> Hi, I’m selling an HBR-17 dual conversion homemade receiver built by a 
> local physician back in 1962.  It is built from the Ted Crosby/Alex 
> Stewart articles in QST magazine from the early 60’s.  It is basically Ted 
> Crosby’s HBR-16 where Alex Stewart wrote a QST article on how to hot rod 
> it by adding the silky smooth Eddystone slide rule dial, a Q-Multiplier, 
> some audio filtering I believe, and a few other circuit changes.   Adding 
> the Eddystone dial involved complicated mechanicals where the RF front end 
> was placed on a separate chassis on top of the main chassis so the 
> frequency determining variable capacitors were placed at a physical height 
> to accept the Eddystone.  I’ve read where Ted Crosby was not too happy 
> with this project because it violated his basis tenants of the HBR series, 
> that being the receiver would be simple enough for most hams to build. 
> The HBR-17 and later HBR-13 added another level of mechanical complexity 
> that did didn’t really like.
>
> I know the history of this radio because I got it from the original 
> builder about 3 years ago.  I have the original invoice from Eddystone 
> dated 1962 when the builder bought the dial from the company in England. 
> The receiver will come with an original letter from Alex Stewart as the 
> builder corresponded with Alex during construction.
>
> The receiver uses National knobs with clean shiny skirts.  The receiver 
> come with several rare unobtainium coil sets for 80 meters, 40 meters, 20 
> meters.
>
> In my opinion the radio is in very clean condition considering its age. 
> There are some scraps and scratches, front panel discolorations. Please 
> check out the photos on photo bucket.com and decide on the condition 
> yourself.   I’ve not had good luck with Apple creating a good hotlink, so 
> if this link doesn’t work, please copy and paste into your browser.
>
> http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17%20Receiver
>
> http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17 Receiver 
> <http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17%20Receiver>
>
>
> I have a video of this exact receiver on youtube.com.  If the hot link 
> doesn’t work, then just copy and paste the link into your browser.   I was 
> listening to 20 meters at the time.  Agreed, my audio recording is awful. 
> Sorry about that.  But the video demonstrates the receiver copying cw and 
> SSB.
>
> https://youtu.be/kqRSI99g1x8
>
> https://youtu.be/kqRSI99g1x8 <https://youtu.be/kqRSI99g1x8>
>
>
> While I have seen the occasional HBR-16 and HBR-11, and one or two HBR-14’s 
> over the years, I’ve never seen an HBR-17 before because they were more 
> complicated to build.
>
> Here is a great chance to own a rare HBR series receiver.   The radio is 
> being sold as-is.
>
> Asking $375 plus shipping.  Thanks. 73, Scott WA9WFA
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