[R-390] Average Ham Shack

[Cecil Acuff]

Casual use...yes....ragchewing, schedules with a few friends on a round 
table discussion..no problem at all....CW or SSB.

But...

When's the last time you used one for a SSB/DX contest or busting a split 
frequency pileup on a rare DX station while trying to listen to both sides 
of the split....all the while fiddling with the RF gain and BFO adjustments 
to try an gain any significant intelligence out of it.

It's a pain...

Best suited to listening to BBC or chasing an African local broadcast on the 
tropical bands.

I'll keep my FT-1000MP MkV for the heavy Amateur Radio stuff....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Average Ham Shack


There has always been a lot of "talk" regarding the use of R-390As in a
ham shack.

I find many comments to be very odd.

IF you can't get it to work for you on CW and SSB, maybe you ought to
give it away or sell it.

The intercept operators had NO problem with doing JUST those tasks.

I may only be licensed for a hair over 29 years, BUT, I've been running
R-390As for ALL modes with NO problems OR issues!

It doesn't take a "Amateur" community design to do the job!

My $0.02 worth!

Bob - N0DGN

Shoppa, Tim wrote:
>> No hamshack is complete without at least one R-390A.
>> http://www.qrz.com/db/w9evt
>>
>
> You can use maybe a couple R-390A's for general coverage AM, but the real 
> ham workhorse on SSB and CW is always gonna be the 75A :-)
>
> Tim.
>

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