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

[Michael Murphy]

I have not seen it Tom. I installed a Cap't Lee /N2NIR type circuit in mine
a couple of years ago and the 6BE6 product detector does a fine job. I
understand that there are better circuits out there.

Mike WU2D


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Norris" <r390a at bellsouth.net>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:34 PM
Subject: [R-390] 390A SSB "Stock Mod" info search


> 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
>
>
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