[R-390] what other Collins boatanchor to compliment the R-390A?

[Tim Shoppa]

Don writes:
> I concur.  Decide what you want to do (CW, AM, SSB, RTTY, etc.) and 
> buy accordingly.  Both Drake and Ten-Tec have made some excellent 
> equipment here in the US

My one solid state "factory" radio is a Ten-Tec Triton IV. I love it.

I was talking to the Ten-Tec factory last year about
upgrading to a Omni VII... but in the end decided that I'll wait
until the Triton dies. It's already 30 years old and it doesn't
look like it's gonna die anytime soon!

I also have a homebrew solid-state multi-band ham CW receiver
but it's always in a state of construction or rearrangement
or experimentation. It's a bunch of modules (band synthesizer,
VFO, preselectors, front end, IF filters, IF amp, BFO/detector/audio
amp) chained together with coax cables. It has 150 and 500Hz
Gaussian filters which are real nice to listen to. Eventually I have t
 tie a common VFO and band synthesizer to a transmitter too,
when I do it'll probably be hybrid (tube output.) I have lashed
it up to my Eico 720 already in fact but it didn't stay together
for long before I had to start making it better :-).

Tim N3QE