[R-390] clock

[Tim Shoppa]

W9WRL writes:
> Scott just my thoughts. Why in the heck would you want to do that? I 
> like to keep my equipment all original, not to mention if you ever 
> wanted to sell the radio I think a lot of guys would look at that and 
> figure someone has been screwing around with a nice radio, you might say 

Well, the VU meter has dubious utility in many "listening while in front
of the radio" situations.

It's different if the radio is being used in a diversity system or feeding
received signals to a remote monitoring point.

Maybe one of those 99-cent sticky-backed LCD clocks would satisfy
both the "don't modify" and "more useful than a VU meter" camps :-)

But like Scott, I seem to recall that for electrically operated front
panel clocks, a common form factor in military/test equipment clocks
seems to match the VU meter cutout. I have some run-hour meters
that fit in the hole, for example.

Tim N3QE