[HBR] HBR Digest, Vol 157, Issue 2

[Mike Rieff]

Hello Scott,

I started collecting parts for an HBR shortly after the Ted Crosby articles
about the -8 and -11 appeared in QST.  Having started early, I was able to
pick up most of the unique parts.  Unfortunately, they also became lost
over the years due to military service, college, marriage, family, etc.  I
do still have the old QSTs though.  Some years ago, I was reading through
them and the old desire started up again, so I bought the W6HHT disk and
found a boat anchor HBR-11 that I could buy.  It was a real mess, but it
did have everything EXCEPT the IF transformers which someone had robbed.
Believe it or not, while thumbing through Ebay a few months later, someone
was selling three of them.  Problem solved!!!

So I have been working on the receiver on and off.  Your email really
interested me as I too am using an Eddystone dial on the left side of the
panel.  I'd like to see the photos you mentioned above, but can't seem to
find them on the QRZ,COM site.  Where to look?

Best regards,

Mike KA0JWF

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM wa9wfa via HBR <hbr at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> I finished building my HBR-13 in 2020.  It is a a really good receiver!  I
> built my HBR-13 with the Eddystone dial on the left side of the panel, as I
> had read quite a bit about Ted Crosby and Bill Stewart scratching their
> heads over a problem of lack of IF regeneration when the RF subclasses was
> moved to the center of the chassis.  Because of that, I left my RF sub
> chassis and IF chain on the left side.  There are two photos of it on my
> QRZ.COM <http://qrz.com/> webpage.  Interestingly enough, I owned two
> HBR-16’s, and HBR-17, and an HBR-11 before building my own.   I had an
> article published in QST several years ago on the Ted Crosby and his HBR
> series.
>
> It’s good to hear some HBR interest after all these years. I’ll be curious
> as heck to find out what John W5MO uncovers in the archives.  73, Scott
> WA9WFA
>
>
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