TITLE: Recursive Non-Well-Orders that are Sneaky, but not THAT Sneaky.
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: This is a variant on 
 Sneaky Recursive Non-Well-Orders
where it was asked

Is there a recursive function $f$ such that whenever $a\in\mathcal{O}$, $f(a)$ is a  Turing index for a linear non-well-order with no $H_a$ -computable descending chain?

The answer to the original question gave a single non-well-order with no hyperarithmetic descending chain at all. Instead can $f(a)$ be a non-well-order with an $H_a$-computable descending chain but no $H_b$-computable descending chain for $b <_{\mathcal{O}} a$ ?

REPLY [3 votes]: Here is something close to what you ask for.  Hopefully others can improve it.
Step 1.  For each $a$ there is a tree $T_a\subseteq \mathbb{N}^{<\mathbb{N}}$ which has a unique path $P$, and $P\equiv_T H_a$.
To construct $T_a$, use the fact that $H_a$ is a $\Pi^0_2$ singleton, that is $$X = H_a  \iff \forall n \exists k R(X\upharpoonright k, n, a),$$ where $R$ is a recursive predicate.  (For details see Higher Recursion Theory by Sacks, Chapter II, page 37.)  Define \begin{align*} T_a = \{ (\sigma_1, \dots, \sigma_r) : \sigma_1 \preccurlyeq \dots \preccurlyeq \sigma_r \text{ and } \forall i\leq r (\exists k \leq |\sigma_i| R(\sigma_i\upharpoonright k, i) \text{ and no } \tau\prec\sigma_i \\ \text{ with } \sigma_{i-1} \preccurlyeq \tau \text{ has this property)}\}.\end{align*}  Then $T_a$ has exactly one path $P$, and $\cup P = H_a$.  One can check that $P\equiv_T H_a$.    This construction is recursive in $a$.  
Step 2.  Define $f(a)$ to be the Kleene-Brouwer ordering on the tree $T_a$. 
Then $H_a$ computes a descending sequence because it computes the unique path $P$.  I suspect a weaker oracle could compute a descending sequence, but if $a$ is a successor notation, $a=2^b$, then I don't know whether $H_b$ does.  If $D = \overline{\sigma}^1, \overline{\sigma}^2, \dots$ is a descending sequence from $T_a$ in the KB ordering, then $\lim_{i\rightarrow \infty} \overline{\sigma}^i = P$, so $D' \geq_T H_a$.