[R-390] Monitoring Times, August 2003

Sandy Geiger [email protected]
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:28:00 -0400


Gents- I called MT one time & just flat out asked them why they didn't do much of anything on the old great boatanchors-& got told that 1) they were too busy trying to get everything  in the magazine they normally have, & 2) they primarily tried to review new stuff they sold, & 3) that's what  "Electric Radio" is for. So there. The fella I spoke with wasn't snotty or anything, just felt like he had way too many irons in the fire. Sound familiar ? -Sandy G. 






C.H.(Sandy)Geiger III 







>From: bw 


>To: 


>Subject: Re: [R-390] Monitoring Times, August 2003 

>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:04:51 -0500 

> 

>Don, 

> 

>I read that article too and Tom did a great job. That got me a bit curious 

>about the Gulf HF comms and I've been hanging around the 4.125 area some. I 

>got one company station on 4.146U the other night with boat captains. Not 

>the same as offshore comms. Good reading stuff, Tom. I worked with guys who 

>flew for PHI, AirLog, and Mobile. It seems that PHI was pretty lousy to the 

>pilots and nobody liked them. PHI was always a starting point for better 

>flying jobs. 

> 

>I was going to write something about the R-390 and SP-600 radios being 

>omitted, but I think I may write a letter in regards to the opinions on the 

>Broadband over Power Lines issue in another piece in the same issue. No, 

>part 1 didn't have any better coverage of our favorite radios. The first one 

>was about S-38s and similar radios. I was very disappointed too. The MT 

>editor is a bit opinionated against tube radios. I guess he tries to stay 

>away from the subject, but his opinions come out a little strong over 

>time....at least to me. Skip Arey sometimes writes good things about R-390s 

>and one of his old columns got me thinking about them 10 years ago. That 

>sort of led me to ask around and learn more about them. He blew it with his 

>BPL ideas this month. 

> 

>Write them a letter. They publish them. I know that Les has written them and 

>they print mine when I write. It won't hurt. Your opinion won't become a 

>flame issue. This was a glaring omission. 

> 

> 

>Barry non-Hauser 

> 

> > One of our esteemed long time list members, Tom Marcotte, has the cover 

> > page and feature article in this month's Monitoring Times. That's issue 

> > Vol 22, No. 8, August 2003. Tom covers the communication activities of 

> > off-shore oil crews and pilots down in the Gulf of Mexico. Nice 

> > article, Tom. Unfortunately it appears that HF comms are mostly 

> > abandoned there. Same issue has part 2 of vintage medium and 

> > high-priced boatanchor receivers but the R-390 is conspicuous by its 

> > absence from the list. Perhaps that was in part 1 that I missed. 

> > 

> > I pick up one of these issues every so often from the local Barnes and 

> > Noble to get an updated shortwave listening guide. Standard pecuniary 

> > interest disclaimers apply! 

> > 

> > Don W5OR 

> 

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