[R-390] first SWL receiver

[Robert Y]

I had been collecting consoles and table models since about the age of 10-12 years old, collected many
 and they came and went and blew many up. I traded a Panasonic 8 track car player to a friend for an 
approx 1936 RCA 811K around 1970 or 71, a 11 tube radio with push pull 6V6's into a 12" electrodynamic
speaker. This radio was my constant companion all through my twenties and thirties until I got my 
first HRO-60, I pulled in over 75 countries on SW and many of the states on BCB on this RCA radio, 
I still have it in the cellar, it needs a recap but has never failed to work and have owned it now for
over 40 years. I have many fond fond memories of it like the night I pulled in KSL Salt Lake City Utah
from a hill in Worcester, MA with a 400' long wire antenna. I liked it so much I bought another one 
and it too awaits recapping, they are very sensitive receiver although they were made for fidelity 
not narrow band, I moved this radio from apartment to apartment up and down stair for years when I 
was young putting up antennas everywhere I went, it was great fun,


Bob Young KB1OKL