[R-390] Re: 390A and SX28

[Gord Hayward]

You'll really like the combination.  I use both the 390a and the SX28.  
The former for really good selective single station reception and the 
latter for scanning and hopping around.  It avoids the
'390 wrist syndrome'.  Often I'll find a station with the SX28 and then 
switch to the 390 to listen.  Of course with 6V6's in push-pull the SX28 
audio is superb.

Cheers, Gord (VE3EOS)


> Topic category: "Why on earth do you have all those radios?"
>
> For years I'd heard about the SX-28 but never really wanted one. I had 
> an SP-200, an SP-600, and later on R-390's of different sorts. Then on 
> a whim, I bought a QST for the month I was born (Oct, '44) and found 
> an article about the flight following radio stations in Alaska and the 
> Aleutian Islands.  We had a lot of aircraft flying over that way 
> during the war.  Pictured are the Adcock directional antennas and 
> racks of SX-28's.  That changed my mind about wanting one of these 
> radios.
>
> Now I have two, an A and an earlier one.  Both await overhaul, but I 
> do look forward to having one around and running well.  Then the radio 
> an I can grow older gracefully together.


-- 

Gordon L. Hayward, Ph.D., P.Eng.,
Associate Professor, Biological Engineering,
School of Engineering, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontaro, N1G 2W1.