[R-390] First radio thread

[Tisha Hayes]

My first receiver as also an SP-200 with a black crinkle finish and the
first bandswitch position 1st RF stage burnt out by lightning. I used to put
the heavy power supply on top of the case and eventually the weight caused
the cloth covered audio cord to short out. I think it blew out the audio
transformer but I was getting ready to go off to college at the time and did
not get around to fixing it.

A few years later I found it in my parents garage, my brothers had used the
front of the radio for BB gun practice and it broke my heart to see all of
the dings and broken glass. Other things took precedence and surreptitiously
would dip back into SWL with portable radios or this nice Telefunken floor
console radio/ record player we owned.

Wanting to recapture the magic of that SP-200 brought me back in with an
SP-600 and then enough parts to build another SP-600 until I jumped to the
R-390A.

Yes, it is a little bit of an obsession, lots of wire for antennas, more
capable radios, etc... I too can stop at any time <lol> that's why when I go
to the Huntsville hamfest this weekend I will not let anything follow me
home!

-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes/ AA4HA
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*"Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action
through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the
defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness."  -- Nathanael Greene*