[R-390] Some "goodies" heard on my '67 EAC.

[Phil Atchley]

Hi boys and girls and R-390() aficionados of all genre.

To quote a certain unsavory movie character, "I'M BACK"!

Last night I buckled down and decided to do some serious SW Listening.  I
started out with the Yaesu VR-5000 but quickly warmed up the "26 glow
bottles" in The Behemoth (24 actually, it has solid state rectifiers).

My first intent was to concentrate on DXing but when I got to AFRTS out of
Hawaii I took a long hiatus.  After catching the news at the top of the
hour, I was just getting ready to look for something else when they started
a Western Story by Louis L'Amour that caught my interest.  I'm NOT a big
Western fan but this one was interesting.  After that one I jumped directly
to AFRTS out of Guam as it wasn't in my logbook.  I then looked for other
AFRTS stations out of Diego Garcia, Signella (sp?) etc but didn't hear them.

What are the  "ONLY" correct radios to listen to AFRTS on?  Why, a Military
Surplus R-390A or Hammarlund SP-600, of course!!  And this one with the
Dallas Lankford AGC/BFO mods does VERY well on the USB (Upper Sideband) mode
used by these stations.

Conditions in ALL directions seemed to be quite good last night.

 UTC,   KHz,   Station,  Location, SINPO,  Language, Equipment used.
_______________________________________________________________
0623,  7385,  WRMI,        Miami FL USA.       SINPO 35433, AM.
English.

0625,  7290,  VO America,  Sao Tome, Africa.   SINPO 35333, AM,
English.

0626,  7190,  Radio Tunis, SFAX, Tunisia, Africa. SINPO 34333, AM.
Arabic Music.

0634,  6115,  Radio Union, Lima, Peru, SA. SINPO 34433, AM.
Spanish, Latino Music and many Sta ID's.

0645-0803, 6350, AFRTS, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, SINPO 45444, USB.
English, News, PSA's, Louis Lamour Western Story (Interesting).

0810-0852, 5765, AFRTS, Barrigada, Guam, Oceania. SINPO 34433, USB.
English, PSA's, Call-in Program "Sports Overnight America".

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*  DXing WITH THE FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT.             *
*  RECEIVERS:                                      *
*    '67 EAC R-390A Military surplus.              *
*    YAESU VR-5000 Wideband, "DC to Daylight".     *
*    REALISTIC DX-392, KNIGHT-KIT R-100A.          *
*    Others that pass thru or are waiting repair.  *
*  Homebrewed Ant/Rig switchbox with filters/Amp.  *
*  ANTENNAS:                                       *
*    Coil Loaded 18.5 Meter Long Sloper.           *
*    Roof mounted Hustler 6BTV 6 band Vertical.    *
*    Scantenna Scanner antenna at 7 Meters high.   *
*  LOCATION: Merced, Central California.           *
*  COORDINATES: 37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh.           *
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