[HBR] Octals and such

[ke9xq at charter.net]

Agreed Bill
    The reason I chose the 13 C is symetry secondarily,
ane performance primarily.  Hard to imagine a home
built rig comparing SO WELL with top of the line rigs
of it's day.  WELL worth the efforts needed to face in
order to have a receiver that performs so well.  And, to
top it all off, we have the experience of dozens of HAMs
that have gone on and built this before we (I) did, and
I can learn from their efforts.  Don't want to go through
this work and get a medeoker (SP) receiver, I plan on
pulling a lot of weak CW signals out of the either with it : )
A friend of mine, now a silent key taught me his ways,
and his main thrill in CW work was to  pull a weak signal
out of the noise and hold a QSO with a Novice or one of
those bare bones rigs, even with the hums and chirps : )
Gotta love it : )  He did not use the noise blankers and
seldom the filters, just turn down the audio and adjust
the gain untill your ears do their little computer like
magic.  Hope to be a good CW Opp one of these days,
just gotta get busy.
73 fer now
Bill  KE9XQ

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> At least you are thinking and then thinking it through. I thought 
> about building some of the projects, including HBR with subminiature 
> tubes. We get an even greater space saving and a considerable saving 
> in power consumption and heat, too. But.. there really aren't 
> "equivalent" tubes at least not for all of the functions. Immediately 
> we are faced with a series of cludges and if we are going to do "this" 
> why not do "that", too. Gosh if we are going to do "that" why not do 
> the "other thing", too. Real quick we are not building the radio we 
> started with and we won't likely get the results we wanted - the 
> reason we chose the project at the beginning.
>
> Those other tubes *CAN* be used to build radio projects but the 
> projects should be designed around those other tubes. It might be 
> possible to adapt them into an HBR. If I was doing that it would be 
> for space and power saving. If I really want those things why not 
> adapt HBR to solid state? <evil grin>
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
>
> On 11/22/2014 11:50 AM, ke9xq at charter.net wrote:
>> Thanks Walt
>>  : )
>> You're right on OM after thinking of this
>> for a few days, I can see the falicies of
>> my daydreaming.  I have a bunch of
>> octals and loctals and such, but do not
>> think I will, build anything with them, unless
>> I play with a regen or two down the road.
>> right now, tho, am too busy procrastinating : )
>> 73
>> Bill  KE9XQ
>
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