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

[rbethman]

I'm going to be a genetic throwback here.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with an R-390A or an SP-600 for the 
station receiver.

I just don't necessarily go with the transmitter "having to be Collins".

Pick YOUR transmitter of choice.

It becomes more of WHAT you are wanting to do, i.e., AM, SSB, and or CW.

Bob - N0DGN

Tim Shoppa wrote:
> 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
>
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Bob - NØDGN