[Boatanchors] Charles Smith works on the R-390A. A lot!

[Rob Atkinson]

Misguided hams have been "modernizing" old gear for years.  It's
almost always a bad idea.  Back in the 1950s CQ published an article
on how to convert a receiver, an AR88 I believe, from octal to
miniature tubes.  This basically trashed the receiver.  It's one thing
to make minor improvements but a total re-design is nuts & misses the
point of running old gear.  In other words, if that guy wants a solid
state set, there are plenty of solid state sets out there like the
Drake R8 and other high end receivers for him.  He could buy a R390
front panel, put it on a box, put the R8 inside and drill holes in the
panel for the Drake controls and pretend he has a R390 that doesn't
need to warm up.  My OPINION only.

Rob
K5UJ

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 5:42 AM Bill Meara via Boatanchors
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> This may be too much for some of you, but I found it really interesting:
> https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/08/trigger-warning-solid-stating-old-tube.html
>
> 73  Bill N2CQR