{"id":10335,"date":"2021-09-16T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/the-hbr-13c-receiver-and-the-poetic-license-of-homebrewers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:34","slug":"the-hbr-13c-receiver-and-the-poetic-license-of-homebrewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/the-hbr-13c-receiver-and-the-poetic-license-of-homebrewers\/","title":{"rendered":"The HBR-13C Receiver and the Poetic License of Homebrewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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I’ve been hanging out on 17 meters with my homebrew VXO-controlled BITX transceiver. The antenna is my 75 meter doublet fed with window line through a homebrew tuner made from dead ( I swear) DX-40s and DX-60s. I can tune it up just fine on 17 meters, but I realize I probably have lots of nulls and lobes in the radiation pattern. Apparently one of the lobes is over my old stomping grounds in Panama. Almost everyday I talk to either HP9SAM or HP3SS. <\/b><\/p>\n

Robby, HP3SS, is using SDR gear now, but he was a real homebrewer back in the day. Years ago he built an HBR-13C receiver. That’s quite an achievement. <\/b><\/p>\n

Robby — formerly VY2SS — told me that he sold his HBR-13C to none other than Joe Walsh, the rockstar from The Eagles. FB. <\/b><\/p>\n

As I was talking to Robby yesterday, I came across this wonderful web page about the receiver: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/sparcradio.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Restoring-a-HBR-13-Amateur-Receiver.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Robby told me that his receiver looked almost exactly like the one on the SPARC site, but he didn’t recognize the small box with what looked like a speaker on the chassis. I told him that my guess was that this was a crystal calibrator in an oven. <\/b><\/p>\n

I also told Robby that I feel an affinity with the HBR project, not just because I like homebrew superhets, but also because my call in the UK was M0HBR. <\/b><\/p>\n

There are some great quotes in the SPARC pdf: <\/b><\/p>\n

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The SPARC page led me to the amazing website of Kees K5BCQ: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/k5bcq\/HBR\/hbr.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Here is Kees’s QRZ page: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/k5bcq\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ve been hanging out on 17 meters with my homebrew VXO-controlled BITX transceiver. The antenna is my 75 meter doublet fed with window line through a homebrew tuner made from dead ( I swear) DX-40s and DX-60s. I can tune it up just fine on 17 meters, but I realize I probably have lots of … Continue reading “The HBR-13C Receiver and the Poetic License of Homebrewers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,530,57,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-panama","category-superhet-receivers","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10340,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions\/10340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}