[R-390] Suggestions for SSB adapter for R-392?

[William A Kulze]

I've heard nothing but good about the Sherwood units but have never had the experience of one. One thing I have done, that I've seen mentioned here, is use an sdr to tune the IF out of the 390a. In my case it's a winradio 303i, but I imagine it will work with any sdr capable of tuning to a radio's IF, as long as you can get the IF out of the receiver. Then I can use the demodulation of the SDR for whatever mode I want. I can even disable the winradio demodulator using a command line switch, leaving me with just tuning control of the winradio. I can then start up power sdr from flex or any other program that will work with I/Q inputs. Winrad is another one. These have a few more features than the winradio software, like noise reduction and such.

Kinda kills the whole vintage thing, but it does a good job with just about any signal, and gives me a panadapter to boot.

Bill W2NVD



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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:54 PM
To: 'Steve Toth'; r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Suggestions for SSB adapter for R-392?

Just for the record, my first SW radio was a Knight-kit Space Spanner and
then a BRAND NEW Hallicrafters S-107 in 1962 (wow) and a plethora of other
ones through the years.  I can tune SSB with the BFO vs gain control also
but it is still a compromise method, otherwise they wouldn't have produced
the CV-591 and all its variants.   

I was looking for a modern day CV-591 or something that does the same
function and does a pretty good job, doesn't have to be "the same as a 591".
Didn't mean to stir the pot, just figured some of you folks might have
already "done it' or might have some hands on experience with units like the
Sherwood Engineering SE-3 MK IV (or others).

Tisha, Thanks for your suggestion. I'll check into it and I welcome any
other equipment suggestions.

Walt
KR4HV