[HBR] HBR 16 Owner Pondering Building My Own

[Dan Merz]

Scott,  since you already have the HBR-16,  try building a different set of
coils for it for one of the bands that you don't have now.  That will be a
project in itself and will enhance your radio and give you a taste of what's
involved before amassing all the components for a complete set.  I don't
doubt that you can acquire all the skill needed - we humans may be a diverse
group,  but when appropriately motivated any of us can execute a set of
instructions so detailed as those for the HBR series of radios.  It's mostly
a matter of how much of your time (and money) do you want to spend doing it.
I too would love to build an HBR from scratch but I'm pretty happy having
access to the ones that others built.  Getting all the parts according to
the original recipes is in itself a project;  making decisions about
modifying the design for other parts available is a more difficult task
requiring experience and or experimentation,  or a lot of reading of
articles from the tube era,  or getting opinions from a group like this one.
I like restoring old radios so the temptation to build from scratch takes a
back burner in my case to reviving the old ones,  including the HBR series.
Their longevity in the ham community literature makes them especially
intriguing,  Dan.     

-----Original Message-----
From: hbr-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:hbr-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Freeberg, Scott (STP)
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:05 AM
To: HBR Receiver List
Subject: RE: [HBR] HBR 16 Owner Pondering Building My Own

Last night I spent some time browsing Kees HBR CD. I bought one from him
last year in anticipation of building my own HBR.      

I enjoyed looking at all the HBR photo's.  I especially enjoyed seeing the
'new' HBRs that folks built.  Some of you guys are real mechanical
craftsman!

Boy I dunno if I have the skills to build an HBR 11 or 16.  I'm really torn
too because the HBR-16 that I own is a sweet sounding receiver on 80, 40, 20
meter cw and ssb.  I'd sure like to build a sweet sounding receiver too but
not sure I have the ability to build a  complicated radio.

Of you guys that built your own HBR, were any of you mildly experienced or
lightly experienced when starting out?  How did it go?  

73, Scott WA9WFA
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