[R-390] Shortwave Start (was SSB adapter for R-390A)

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

My start was at about the same time and along the same path.
I had an uncle give me an S-38 when I was 9.
I almost killed myself with the hot chassis.
I still used it through age 17.
While living in Jamaica this was my contact with the modern world.
I reported the top 40 hits from the BBC and the US for the Priory 
School newspaper.
I listened to WLCY Tampa/St Pete almost every night.

Before we moved to Jamaica, my father bought a Zenith Transoceanic.
We used that to keep contact with news from the US.

When we moved back stateside, I was given a SRR-13 that had been used 
on USS Banner, the USS Pueblo sister ship.
At least that is what I was told by the ex CT that gave it to me.
I used that receiver for many years.


I am now 60 and have many receivers, most in need of repair ( that is 
the way I bought them).
I will have time to enjoy them soon, after I retire.
In the lot are at least three R-390A, A SP-600, some WJ receivers and 
a lot of ex military receivers and transceivers.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

At 03:09 PM 8/16/2011, rbethman wrote:
>My Uncle had a Halli S-38 when I was about 8 or 9.  I listened to it
>whenever I could.
>
>My Grandfather had a Light Brown Leather covered Zenith Transoceanic
>with the whip and Wave-Magnet.  I used to listen with that any time
>possible.  That ran from 7 yrs old to 10 yrs old.
>
>Now I'm an old goat of 61!
>
>My favorite is my Northern Radio SP-600.
>Next comes an R-390A
>The last (GASP!) is a Kenwood R-2000
>There is also a Kenwood TS-930SAT here too.
>
>Bob - N0DGN
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