[R-390] those pesky ballast tubes

[Gary Bourgois]

I still have not had time to bench my Capeheart, my life is non stop.  At
$100 a throw, that is a lot to pay for a light bulb.  I recall there was
someone who sold a resistor mounted on a tube socket, did I dream this or
is this a true story?

I really miss my radio.  When it died it impressed everyone.

OT:

I live in the aroural zone, and the Ionosphere seems to be broken totally.
 I have a lot of radios, and NONE of them gets much more than computer
hash.  The R390 did not suffer from the hash because I put a loop antenna
in the back yard, far away from the computer room (I have 8 computers
running SkyBirdRadio, which is my first love)

I am in Marquette Michigan and I believe that if I could get the receiver
working again, it would pick stuff up.  That front end is just amazing.

My last project was restoring a very unique zenith wide console, man they
just don't make radios that sound this good, but the 390 using the
detector out and running it into the mixing console, I often relayed
shortwave programming.

This spring I plan to start a new radio program which will run on Saturday
Nights on 5070 WWCR.  Needless to say one of the segments will be about
this amazing radio.

In order to hear the show, I will need the R390, which blows rings around
my Kenwood.

Anyone else notice the bad propo, which has been going on here now for
over a year.

Art Bell talks about it all the time, like me he is a 75M fan.

So does anybody make a resistor replacement?  There are tubes on the audio
module that do not light up.

I am open to suggestions.  Chuck did a wonderful job restoring the radio
back in 2000.

Gary Bourgois
SkyBird Broadcast Group
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