[R-390] R-390A new to this net

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

Greg,

Welcome to the list. Get an antenna on the receiver and keep it turned on.
There is so much more on the radio than any where else.

Happy to hear you are also trying to get on the air. I do not get enough 
time on the air myself. I am doing a whole house rebuild and put the 
transmitter away until it was done.

If you have any problems with the receiver put a question into the list and 
we will help.

There are many more readers than there are post. We try to get it on the 
reflector so it gets preserved. We know a lot of Fellows start by reading on 
the reflector. So we try to keep help on line through the reflector. One on 
one direct post get do not get into the reflector so the help only goes 
direct to one person. Not that one on one exchanges are bad. Some things should 
just not be broadcast. But by putting help on the reflector and having it 
preserved in the archives, a lot of good stuff gets documented. We have no clue 
how many Folks have had a problem, read for a while in the archives and 
solved their problem. Many thanks to Qth for the reflector and the subject 
archives. While this is the R390 reflector, other subjects serve other 
communities of common interest and provide similar service to the group of people 
that subscribe and read on other topics. 

Lack of man power (its all volunteer) keeps the archive from getting edited 
as many wish would happen. Here on the R390 reflector we have a couple 
Special Fellows who keep up R390 web pages for us. Then Wei-Li' has spent years 
combing the daily post that become the archives and has put together the 
Pearls Of Wisdom. Back before 2000 with Y2K upon us a group put the Y2K manual 
together. I like all these resources. The Pearls will help you with a 
problem area of your receiver. If you have a narrow dial up connection and cannot 
just down load a CD in 8 minutes, The Y2K manual and Pearls Of Wisdom are 
your references of choice. You can access it by section. Doing a bit of 
research up front you can quickly find the part of the service manual or one of 
the Pearls you need to work on a problem.

To pass the time and keep the reflector alive a few of us put up some stuff 
that has marginal tangential value. But then we are working on our stand up 
comic sticks for our other sources of income. A Fellow has got to do what a 
Fellow has got to do. We know we have a group of readers. Many Fellows have 
ask come by for a while and gotten help with their receivers. Someday if 
they need some more help they will post a new question. We try to be of 
service whenever to who ever needs it. We know how many Fellows and receivers are 
still going strong because we were willing to give a few words of help when 
ask for it. 

But when we run out of real problems to work on, we digress. We hope some 
folks enjoy the reading those days. If not then just delete the mail with 
that thread we will never know. The flip side is you may just miss a great line 
to slip into an other conversation some place else in your life.

Welcome

Roger Ruszkowski AI4NI
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