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

[Joe Foley]

You forgot to chastise him for not having a
"half-moon" guard on his KC CHANGE knob.

Joe




--- Roy Morgan <roy.morgan@nist.gov> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> - Roy Morgan, K1LKY since 1959 - Keep 'em Glowing!
> 7130 Panorama Drive, Derwood MD 20855
> Home: 301-330-8828 Work: Voice: 301-975-3254,  Fax:
> 301-948-6213
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> 
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