[HBR] Re: HBR Digest, Vol 26, Issue 13

[Rich Arland]

Hi Bill:

Happy Holiday!

It is postings like this that keep me fired up. I need all the inspiriation
I can get to get working on my HBR-8.

Keep up the postings!

73 Rich K7SZ

PS: Thanks for the heads up on the book outlet. I am ALWAYS on the look out
for older books on radio. As a matter of fact, I am in need of several
titles by Howard S. Pyle, W7OE from the late 50s into the mid 60s. I will
try your source for these.



> By the way, work on the HBR-?? is continuing, but slowly, due to work
> responsibilities. The RF stage, local oscillator, and first mixer are
> working nicely, the second mixer and oscillator (6U8) is complete but
> untested, and the BFO (using the old BC-453 BFO coil with half of a 12AU7)
> is BFOing just where it should be, variable +/- about 3kc either side of
> 85kc. (I'm using the other half of the 12AU7 as a phase splitter, hoping
to
> drive the deflection plates of a 6JH8 as a product detector in push-pull.
> Anybody tried this?) Next step is to finish the 85kc IFs, and get them
> working. Maybe this weekend. Or next...