Bob Heil, K9EID
 
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  Name: Bob Heil, K9EID
Bob Heil, K9EID
 
Topic: Life before, during and after DSP !
Location: Cabrillo Room
Date & Time: Friday 7 - 8:30 PM


Bob Heil, young theatre organ protégé of Stan Kann began his musical career as Stan’s substitute organist at the St Louis Fox Theatre in 1955. He learned to ‘listen’ – mentally dissecting the various sounds of that magnificent Wurlitzer as he and Stan would tune and voice the monster to keep it playing. Young Bob also took a special interest in amateur radio and became licensed in 1956 as K9EID. Heil met Larry Burrows K0DGE on the 6 meter amateur band. It was Larry that taught Bob how to design and build early SSB VHF equipment on the back benches at KMOX. Larry was the chief engineer for the St. Louis CBS power house. That knowledge, along with Heil’s unique ability to listen was the spark that created an International sound reinforcement company, started originally in Marissa, Illinois in 1966. Heil has developed hundreds of innovative audio products and mixing the live concert sounds for leading entertainment groups such as the ‘Who’, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Humble Pie, Z.Z. Top, Jeff Beck, Dolly Parton, the Billy Graham Crusade and countless others. Bob is most famous for his invention of the Heil ‘Talk Box’, an electro-mechanical device that he designed in 1970 for his ham radio buddy WB6ACU, Joe Walsh to do Joe’s signature song “Rocky Mountain Way” and brought to further prominence with Peter Frampton’s “Show Me The Way” album. Heil also was the ‘father’ of multi KW concert sound systems being the first to hang tons of Heil Sound speakers from Rohn 25G ham radio tower in order to increase the sight lines of large auditoriums. Many of Heil’s early ideas are still being utilized on many live concert stages 30 years later.
   
   
   
     
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