[HBR] HBR-17 Pictures For your Viewing Enjoyment

[Whitebear1122]

As many of us have not see an HBR-17 before, I put up a few photos on photobucket.com for your viewing enjoyment.  As I recall the story, Alex Stewart wanted to hot rod the HBR-16 by adding a Q-Multipler, tweaking some circuit values, and adding the smooth Eddystone slide rule dial.  As I heard it, Ted Crosby was not really interested in doing the HBR-17 as it was considerably more mechanically complicated,  more skills than the average HBR builder had.  Ted’s reoccurring theme was to design a receiver that could be readily built by ‘amateurs’.  I can attest to the complex machining required for the raised RF front end.  Luckily at work they have a Bridgeport milling machine and the engineer in charge of the lab was happy to teach me how to use it.  After many missteps, I was able to route out the large opening in the chassis, and use it to mill out slots, and holes.  Not for the faint hearted. hi hi

http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17 Receiver <http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17%20Receiver>


http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17 Receiver <http://s1140.photobucket.com/user/651daisy/library/HBR-17%20Receiver>

I’ve not had success attaching a link in the past.  If the above links don’t work, just copy and paste it into your browser.

73, Scott WA9WFA