[R-390] Vaguely on topic, planet X & the R-390A

[DAVEINBHAM@aol.com]

> This whole area
> of human performace measurements has been thoroughly researched by Paul
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> Ed,
> I am not sure I am that interested in it. The whole thing started on 
> another net with a guy who, apparently, has been terribly disappointed ever 
> since the whole world did not go to hell in a handbasket with the Y2K 
> "computer crash."
> He is now getting ready for " Planet X " that will arrive in May and will 
> kill off 2/3 of the population of earth. He wanted me to engineer a human 
> powered radio as he fears his solar cells will be unable to function for a 
> month or more in the dust storms generated by the close encounter with " 
> Planet X ". 
> I suggested a Bay-Gen windup radio from South Africa. Problem solved.
> And then I got to thinking. Amazing what the human brain will do after the 
> owner has oiled it with a proper quantity of whiskey !!!  I have a Bay-Gen. 
> It is a good radio for what it was designed to do, but against a high 
> quality radio it sucks. So, I thought maybe I could take the voltage outa 
> the Bay-Gen generator and run it through an inverter and into the proper 
> voltage regulator circuits in my Racal RA6790/GM and have a REAL windup 
> radio. Then I got to thinking what would it take to power one of my 
> R-390A,s offline and for some reason remembered those old magazine adds for 
> the pedal powered military radios. You can see the line of logic in that, 
> can't you ? Perfectly logical after 6  Scotches.
> Oh yeah, for what it is worth, I think maybe "Planet X" is the same one 
> Wayne Green keeps writing about in 73.
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> Kindest regards,
> Dave








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