[R-390] 390A SSB "Stock Mod" info search

[Tom Norris]

This may or may not be fodder for some of the latest info updates or  
what have you, but I've not seen it online, not on Pearls....

There seem to be several 390A's around with SSB mods, some are said  
to have come from mil surplus in that condition. Over the years folks  
have posted pics here and there, and there was a good writeup on a  
book by an Italian fellow that went over that mod. Not sure if that  
book is still in print, etc. (if it is, I'm broke, etc.)

Many of us have seen the product detector mod that's in Cap't Lee's  
"Mars" mod series, but this is a different sort of thing, for those  
that aren't sure what I'm talking about. This lashup has a small box
that mounted just behind the headphone jack, apparently there were  
assorted different versions, some may indeed have followed the mars  
mod.  There was at least one modded radio discussed in the distant  
past on this list (ten years or so ago, more?) that supposedly "came  
that way" though I can't find  the messages I'm looking for in the  
archives about it.  May have been discussed on Boatanchors.

If nothing else, does anyone still have a copy of the book I'm  
thinking of?


Tom NU4G