[HBR] RE: Jay's Story

[Bruce Wright]

Dear Fellow List Members...

This is great...Seeing this list come to life after what has appeared to be, 
to me at least, a long doldrum of activity.

The recent postings on Ted and his biographical information is interesting 
and also enriching of the
of the HBR experience whether conceptual (as in my case, so far) or actual, 
first-hand...Good stuff!

Among the recent postings here, someone wrote (and to paraphrase) that there 
were more interesting articles in one issue of QST from the 1950's than a 
whole year of the current version...That is a statement I find not only true 
  but also a telling clue as to where, perhaps, the collective mind-set has 
drifted or moved on to with regard to the "nuts and bolts" of our hobby.

When I was but twelve years old, in 1957, those first HBR articles appeared 
and I was at that point not anywhere near to understanding them but they 
captured my imagination...Having not yet tested for my Novice license (that 
would come in 1958) and listening to W1AW code practice sessions on 80 and 
40 with my freshly built Knight Space Spanner (which, by the way was my 
first "communications" receiver!), I remember those first HBR articles and 
especially those articles featuring the -8 and -11 that appeared a few years 
later...They really got my attention and I kept all the QST's from those 
early years with the Crosby articles bookmarked, "for that day" when I could 
manage the understanding, the construction and the "tweaking" to have 
proudly built and operate my own station receiver.

Well, the bad news is its nearly 50 years later and I have not yet built 
that HBR station receiver...The good news is I am slowly acquiring parts for 
the -13C and with "retirement" ahead, now may be the opportunity to finally 
realize my dream.

IMHO, Ted Crosby is shoulder-to-shoulder among the other well-known 
designers/constructors/authors who populated the pages of QST: Goodman, 
Grammar, DeMaw and McCoy, etc.

Looking forward to more info on Ted, on HBR history and the "details" 
related to HBR projects, past, present and future.

Tnx es 73,

Bruce
WC5CW