Our beloved founder, Dr. Bob Heil, K9EID, is now a Silent Key. Bob fought a valiant, year-long battle with cancer, and passed peacefully surrounded by his family. Bob’s lifelong passion for amateur radio was clear to everyone involved in the hobby. Everything Bob did for the betterment and growth of amateur radio - from his instructional handbooks and countless presentations to his support of the ARRL and youth programs - was based on the foundation and spirit of service. Bob was an Elmer to all of us. While Bob’s presence will dearly be missed, his impact on the hobby and everyone in it will forever be felt. On behalf of Bob to all ham radio operators worldwide, 73.
A buddy of mine had several conversations with Bob and always found him to be a gentleman. In fact, before they split the company, Bob frequently was the one who answered the phone.
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt
In 2006, some of the historic products Heil Sound built for major arena tours of the late 60' and 70's were put on display at the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum - the only manufacturer in the Rock Hall. I learned how to design and build special equipment from what I learned from my early days of Amateur Radio. It is a great honor and very humbling to have this display open in the Rock Hall museum, located right beside the Les Paul room and around the corner from the historic Sun Studio.
Heil Sound display in Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum features many specialty products including The Heil Talk Box built for Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton and many other artists, the first quad mixer and one of the rear channel arena speakers built for the WHO's Quadraphenia tours, one of Roger Daltrey's microphones (a model 566), the first modular mixer, modular power amps, modular EQ, the Echo cord tape delay Heil used for Pete Townshend's guitar effects., the 15 channel mixer used for the Grateful Dead and many other products designed and built by Heil Sound that performed some very historic tours and concerts - late 60's through 1980.
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt
