[R-390] Framingham, MA Flea report Nov. 8 New R390

[AI2Q]

John:

Go through the entire alignment, and you'll see what's needed.

Good luck with it!

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Maine 
http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: flood at Krohne.com 
  To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1:11 PM
  Subject: [R-390] Framingham, MA Flea report Nov. 8 New R390






  Greetings,

  This is a small but usually well attended flea that is put on by the
  Framingham Amateur Radio Assoc. two times a year (spring and fall).   John
  >From CT, (forgot his last name) was there with some spare parts
  PTO/knobs/gears.  Next to him a someone had driven up from NY with a good
  looking R-390/URR.  a '51(for Collins) and it was looking for a new home.
  It had meters, top cover, power cord with connector, all internal covers
  and a good looking engraved  front panel.  It was stated that it was
  working and in current use.  Asking price was $500.  Fair considering the
  going price in "E" land.  As the morning went on and I sold a few things I
  started offers.  At the end of the show, I had $425 in hand and just enough
  left over to pick up the favorite coffee for "she who must hold the door
  open and let it pass incoming inspection".  I was lucky enough to convince
  the seller that although less than he wanted, with todays high fuel costs,
  the elimination of about 100 pounds of ballast would help to reduce fuel
  consumption and help to offset the difference.

  Powered up at home it seemed to overload on some of the local BC stations.
  A quick adjustment of the gain control helped that and then the AGC was
  AG'ing again.  I let it run on a local station a few hours and after
  getting the kids to bed started tuning around HF.  Not much heard.  Tried
  the BBC on 5975 and found them weak.  Got depressed at that point and went
  to bed.  The baby was crying at about 4:00AM and when I went in to sort
  things out I was wondering why the sun was coming up so early.  It turned
  out to be an aurora.  The baby and I checked out the light show and other
  radios on HF and they were dead as well.  I guess things are OK after all.

  One thing I have noticed is that the tuning seems to be offset a couple of
  kHz depending of the filter settings.  Is this a sign of impending doom?
  Now that I have some experience on the "A" It's nice to get this one as
  well.  The main question is, should this go on top of or below the '67 EAC
  R-390A/URR in the rack?

  John Flood KB1FQG
  TASC Department
  KROHNE, Inc
  7 Dearborn Rd.
  Peabody, MA   01960
  Tel.:  978-535-6060 / 800-356-9464
  Fax:   978-535-8180

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