[R-390] Fair Radio R-390A Question?

Wed, 1 May 2002 13:53:47 -0700 (PDT)

After reading all of this I have come to the
realisation that I went to a really crappy high
school!

Joe

--- "Scott, Barry (Clyde B)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> That might be true, but I still think I would have
> been more interested in anything electronic in
> nature rather than who was governer of the state 150
> years ago <yawn...> or whether my essay had three
> main points with the necessary expansion on each
> point.  I equated a term paper with a prison
> sentence.  Of course, then I went to college later
> in life and got good at writing them, but that's
> another story.  The physics labs were still more fun
> than the history papers.
> 
> Barry(III) - N4BUQ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray, W2EC [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:59 PM
> To: Scott, Barry (Clyde B)
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Fair Radio R-390A Question?
> 
> 
> No, you wouldn't have. I was already a ham when I
> started high school. I
> was in an advanced electrical curriculum of three
> years with several
> different classes each day dealing with electronics
> and electricity,
> plus labs. We even had a computer course (how to
> desing and build logic
> circuits (now called programming) using relay logic)
> so we'd be ready to
> enter the world of vacuum tube computers that was
> just opening up. I had
> several years of electronics theory dealing with
> tubes. We just barely
> touched solid state as it was too new to be
> considered worthwhile at the
> time. Trust me, I did not do a whole lot of paying
> attention in class
> when it came to electronics. Maybe if I was a "ham
> wannabe" I would have
> paid attention, but I felt I already "knew it all"
> as a ham.
> 
> 73, Ray  W2EC 
> 
> "Scott, Barry (Clyde B)" wrote:
> > 
> > I wish they would have had vacuum-tube theory in
> my high school.  I would have paid attention in
> class a LOT more...
> > 
> > Barry(III) - N4BUQ
> > 
> > I learned everything I needed to know about fixing
> radios like the R-390 in
> > high school.  A combination of industrial
> electronics (the first year was
> > all vacuum tube theory and applications) and a
> little auto shop (it sure
> > looks like a standard transmission out of an old
> sports car).   So folks
> > that love these radios are combination Tube&Gear
> Heads I suppose.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > 73 de Richard KB5WLH
> > 
> > Oh no!  I just read my post and determined that I
> must be old:)
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