[R-390] Heard on my "new" R-390A receiver.

[John Kolb]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Barry Hauser wrote:

> While the SWL reflector is more appropriate, as I recall, interesting
> signals received on R-390's are fair game for the list.

What's a good SWL reflector?
>
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> Sounds like another form of  "Oh-no!  Won't power up at all now!  Woe is
> me!" syndrome after working on something for days.  Theorize this, analyze
> that, suspect this, surmise whatever, but usually it's a case of: -- Power
> cord is plugged into the strip, voltmeter is hooked up to strip, strip is
> plugged into the Variac, Variac is plugged into extention cord, extention
> cord is plugged into ... OOOPS .. nothing -- thin air.  Saying "I knew it
> was some kind of high resistance problem!" doesn't help much - still feel
> goofy even though no witnesses -- except the radio.
>

Well, usually the extension cord was plugged back into the strip  :)

John