[R-390] Re: R-390A tag with A on it - field mod

[Roy Morgan]

At 01:09 PM 3/23/03 -0600, you wrote:
  ... lubed by me in 1996 using Hoppes  ... The KC knob can still
>be turned with my little finger.  I was called a heretic then and probably
>will be again:)

Richard,

YES! You *are* a heretic.

Now stop causing trouble by invoking the gods of great ukumpucky and the 
devils of gear train grease!  (Shudder ... dare I refer to them obliquely, 
let alone say their names in print!)

Leave well enough alone.. go back, BACK, I say.. !!
  ...   back to the shack where you may spend many, many hours of penitence 
spinning that knob with one finger.  Tune Djarkarta. Tune London. Tune the 
weekend ham cw contests. Tune local and DX am radio (but only briefly, lest 
the programming rot your mind.)  Tune numbers stations ... All the while 
imagining yourself a long-retired shift worker doing "government work" 
behind locked doors at Vint Hill Farms Station in the late 1950's.

Concentrate on the lone sailor radioman on a destroyer at midnight far at 
sea north of the arctic circle in late Fall with the outside air well below 
freezing, setting for the hundredth time a new comm frequency to pull in 
the fleet commanders' encrypted signals from Norfolk or Puerto Rico.

Think back carefully lo, these many years now, that you overhauled that 
radio and put a, (gasp!) *gun lubricant* in the gear train!  Give the knob 
a twist once more with a single finger of the other hand, now that the 
first hand is worn out from spinning in frequency after frequency. Ponder 
on all the time gone by since the overhaul you did, all the many, many 
frequencies you've dialed in.. Imagine, if you need to imagine it, that the 
thing moves even more smoothly than earlier as you ask it to once again 
nudge up a whisper fraction of a kc to center the signal in the selected 
bandwidth.

Yes, back to the shack with you.
Take THAT for penitence!

(And in another year's time let us know how well it's tuning!)

Roy



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