[R-390] New R-390A owner

[Don Reaves W5OR]

Welcome to the list, Ronnie.

QRP, CW, R-390A?  You are going to be the envy of many QRPer's.  Why, you
might start a panic stampede to ebay and hamfests searching for R-390A
receivers to get that listening edge.  I can't think of a better receiver
for the purpose.  The 390A will toss off your 5 watts like water on a duck's
back. You could have full QSK, too, by building up a TR switch or riding the
gain control a bit.  Put a couple of 1N4148 diodes back to back on the
antenna input.

It has been shown that a R-390A receiver is the perfect Field Day accessory
to a modern computransceiver, which may suffer  from frontend overload,
intermod, and general desense amid typical FD locations with adjacent
transmitters. Also useful for toning up the back muscles transporting it to
the site.

</grin>


Don Reaves W5OR
w5or@comcast.net
R-390 list manager



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