Fw: [R-390]

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

Check the input coils for the bands that do not work. I have found these to 
go bad, probably from a close by transmiter when they saw their first life.

Hope it is this simple.

73
Glenn

At 05:47 PM 06/20/04, Lee Bahr wrote:
>I went to the Arlington Ham Comm in Texas yesterday and bought my third
>R-390A.  It was a Motorola, serial # 1587.  All meters are intact but the
>chap who sold it to me for $250 said it does not work on all bands and he
>didn't  know what was wrong with it. He said he found it in a corporation's
>disposable pile.  Now I have 3 of them to restore!  (The other two are EAS
>units).  The Motorola unit looks clean and the front panel is nice but not
>perfect.  All the covers are there.
>
>What would be the most logical reason for some bands not working?  I guess
>crystals would be suspect and maybe switch contacts, if nobody was screwing
>slugs around in the unit.  (I'll check to see if rack coil slugs are
>moving).
>
>Also, what do you guys think of the latest Electric Radio's article (June,
>2004) on improving R-390A audio?  I'm thinking of trying this if I ever/when
>get my radios up and running,
>
>I just ordered the two sets of Hi-Res videos on the R-390A as well as the
>set for the SP-600JX but they have not arrived from Hi-Res as yet.  My two
>cap kits for my first two R390As have been sitting on the work bench for
>weeks now.  Maybe the videos will get me going!
>
>Lee, w0vt
>Houston
>
>
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