[R-390] not ballast tubes again!

[Gary Bourgois]

I mostly lurk here, keeping my mouth shut where I am a class A ijit.  I am
a geek though, and radio geeks are the best.  Unfortunately I am the only
one here, and in 1986 my antenna blew down.  These lots are small though,
but I got a full 100 x 50 and I think an inverted V might do the trick.

But I digress.

We keep some topics for summer reruns.  Even though some horses (like
ballast tubes) have been beaten to dog food, I always read the whole post
(but not the endless reposts of posts contained in each post.

Re the gentle 3FT7...A friend has promised me 2.  Not because he had to,
but because he had two.

But my buddy is depressed, so I won't see them for a while.

The 6ba6 or whatever some guys say is great in theory, but it requires
mutilation and modification.  I hate to tell you how many radios I
modified and smoked, until my soldering gun got confiscated (Kid, you'll
burn the house down!)  So thus I have 3/4 of a roll of kester, which makes
a nice security camera mount (It sits on a 35 inch toshiba tubed box)

So after all that, we get back to the R390A which I have mounted in a rack
with other electronic goodies.

Every time the topic comes up, someone has a similar mod.

I just want the radio to play and none of the Old Timers will help me
(That's why you don't hear me running full legal power on 3950 0r 3923 or
other watering holes any more)

So can it be simple as putting a 42 ohm resister between pins 2 and 7 of
the 3ft7? What about power rating, I have heard anything ranging between 5
and 25 watts, and is that with or without the 6BEAWHATEVER-GT.

I just want my radio to play again and let out no smoke.  You know someone
ought to make "Essence of vacuum tube" for a cologne.  I would buy it!

So what say, gents?  My long term plan is to buy the Ripple solution.  I
would do it today but I don't have a tech, and don't look at me, I CAINT
DO IT!).  And I don't have the money right now.  maybe a project for
winter, since the ionosphere does not exist up here during Aroura blackout
in the tundra.

BTW Marquette is a wonderful place to live, you should move here.  I run
an internet radio station (and a C band Satellite channel)  24 hours a
day.  If you are an OT, you would like the music, at least some of it, we
play everything except hiphop, and that other boom boom boom noise that
shakes my house when they drive by.

Anyone here a Linux Geek?  I am having problems with audio and video in
fedora core 3. It used to work, but that was in Mandrake.

Thanks for listening to my ramble, and hopefully we can define a simple
one resistor mod, I can live with drift until I can afford Chucks Mod.

TNX ES 73
DE WB8EOH
THE ECCENTRIC OLD HIPPIE

Please do not overquote this message, your net poster mabob works like a
word processor.  You can Highlight text and remove it and just keep the
specifics of what you are replying to.

We could take it off line, that would make the list happy.