[HBR] Need feedback: HBR-8

[Shoppa, Tim]

I think that as the HBR-14 was a "Cadillac" receiver, that there is a place for a "Volkswagon Beetle" receiver as well, the HBR-8.

Beetle's don't have any of the fancy features of a Cadillac (heck, mine didn't have a gas gauge or even a heater) but they help you appreciate what a car actually has to do - something that's harder to appreciate in a Cadillac.

AVC and "too much gain" in the way of an extra IF amplifier are things that I happen to think of as "undesirable features" right now. I spent way too long thinking that the right way to use a radio was to turn up the gain until the background noise was really loud and then using the AGC to not blow my eardrums out when I actually tuned across a signal. Using a radio that instead makes the background noise hearable, but not loud, helps bring a perspective to the bands that I think too fancy radios miss. Loud signals are loud and quiet signals are quiet. It's a different and IMHO superior way to "hear" the bands.

-----Original Message-----
From: hbr-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:hbr-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WA5VGO
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [HBR] Need feedback: HBR-8

It works well for what it is, but one less IF amplifier and a lack of AVC are major sacrifices. It's a good starting place, but I wouldn't  want to leave it that way.

73,
Darrell, WA5VGO


---- C Eus <catman351 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hello:
> Has anyone built this version alone?  What were the findings? Thanks. Cal,
> N6KYR/4.
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