[MRCA] weekend

[Jack Antonio]

On 3/20/2016 1:02 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
The
> next morning managed to sleep right thru the five AM net; five o’clock
> comes early around here.

I managed to get myself out of bed at 5:30, went to the shack to turn
everything on to make a late check in, only be greeted by a solid wall
of QRN. Only caught a couple of words here and there. A front was moving
through the area at that time. At least the grass got a good watering.
>
> Back in the shop the ARR-41 is up on the bench. Some may be compelled to compare all this to
> the R-390 but in my mind it has more in common with radios like the
> ARC-38 and later 618T family then its huge and heavy relative the R-390


I agree with that assesment. My R-648 is working, but it does need a
mechanical overhaul, the tuning is a bit stiff, plus the BFO  wanders
around a couple of kc. I think it is the varactor tuning, either a bad
pot or maybe the varactor itself is going south.

> Being that I have a thing for the ARC-38 that’s what brought me into the
> idea of using an ARR-41 as a companion receiver, they even share a
> common audio module.

Would have been neat to have another ARC-38 to ARC-38 qso. If Pete
JWU gets on, we could have a three way.

Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4