[R-390] Modded my R-390A...

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In a message dated 10/24/02 4:10:47 PM, barry@hausernet.com writes:

<< Greetings to the list ...


Now that we've established, or re-established that Roy's a great guy (and I

agree), I'm afraid there are some other issues to deal with.  They concern

our dear friend Phil A.


For one, he outright admitted that he actually drilled a hole to install an

RCA jack in _our_ R-390A.  (Private ownership of historical relics is a mere

illusion, a commercial technicality, and in Phil's case, often very

temporary.)  In one move,  a double infraction.  First, there's the hole.

Then -- an RCA jack?  What's this, some kind of Victrola? 

No, he musta thought it was an ARC-5............one of them without extra 
holes is kinda suspect......

 At least he could

have had the common decency to be thematically consistent and installed a

BNC.

"Thematically"???????????????  Don't try to one up us Perfessor!!


There's more.  What's the purpose of the abovementioned abomination?  To

connect a Q-multiplier, right?  The physical act of the connection is

reversible -- just a single coax connection (albeit via that unauthorized

orifice).  However, it does, in no uncertain terms, indicate the intent to

operate an R-390A at a Q other than the official, sanctioned Q.  The Collins

gurus in their wisdom equipped the R-390A with a wide range of selectivity

settings. They did not see fit to add a Q-multiplier.  Enough said.

Well, if that Q-Multiplier is placed wrong, there will be inquiries as the 
availabilty of failed mechanical 
filters...............bzzzzzzzzzzzzzztttttttttttt...oooooooppppppsss!!!


Finally, Phil Atchely is a great guy, but he's also a self-confessed lowfer

with a penchant for dx-ing and monitoring beacons.


Jest like that lowfer Barry Williams and Ed Norton.

  This gives cause for

concern.  Perhaps the only thing worse is someone admitting to listening to

numbers stations -- the whole program -- and writing all the numbers down.

Highly suspicious.  But that's not the issue.  While R-390A's differ as to

numbers of holes, official and unofficial mods, manufacturer, purity of

modules, etc., what do all have in common?  Even though the tags vary

somewhat, what do they all say, emblazened and indelibly etched alongside

the voltage requirements?  A low end of 500 kc.  Phil is operating his

R-390A at odds with the official nomenclature plate and, yes folks,

technically he is therefore "out of bounds".  Is nothing holy?

Nope, "nuttin honey"...................


All this will have to be taken up before the tribunal.  Of course, I'll be a

character witness.  (People say I'm a real character ;-)


Barry

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