[Boatanchors] National one ninety receiver

[Gary Pewitt]

Clive, the National NC-190 was my first short wave receiver bought new 
from Lafayette catalog in 1964 while stationed at RAF Croughton, 
England.  It's a medium quality rig with pretty good performance typical 
for radios in the middle '60's.  It has a rather nice dual bandspread 
dial that works with ham bands and the shortwave bands by simply pulling 
out on the knob and rotating it 180 degrees.  Like most receivers of the 
time and in it's price range ($240.00) it falls off on the higher bands 
a bit.  I solved that by adding an Eico Nuvistor cascode preamp.  Used 
with an Evesdropper multi band dipole antenna I collected a -lot- of QSL 
cards.  Back then I couldn't begin to afford a Hammarlund HQ-180 but the 
NC-190 was a lot better than most first receivers and even though I sold 
it for college money I missed it so much that I later got another one 
with the same preamp and antenna just for nostalgia.
It's not as fine as an NC-183D but I was thrilled with it and even put a 
"Danger 30,000 ohms" sign on it to keep my idiot room mates from 
fiddling with it. ;-)
There was a nice looking matching speaker available with a "flip foot" 
just like the radio in the matching electric blue color.  If you have 
any more questions feel free to ask and I'll try to help.
73  Gary  N9ZSV


On 9/27/2010 6:35 PM, CLIVE COLLINS wrote:
> Good evening gentlemen,
> I have come across a receiver that is in pristine condition and works well with the name National on it and the words "One Ninety"
> I cant find this RX listed anywhere and I wonder if anyone knows of it or anything about it.
> Thanks and regards,
> Clive GW3WEQ North Wales Coast UK
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