[R-390] first SWL receiver

[bavarianradio at comcast.net]

Bob, I too, had an RCA 811K. A friend bought mine for me at a yard sale for $2.00. I replaced the necessary filter caps and got it working, I also used mine for many years!! I eventually sold or gave it to a friend who 10 years later gave/sold it back (I can't remember if any $$ changed hands)  It eventually went to a friend who stored it in a facility that he ultimately couldn't afford and it all(many antique radios/consoles etc) went away. I acquired another one about 12 years ago but had no room to put it so I gave that one away as well. I now hav an 816K (not as pretty but a better radio) awaiting de-mousing nad restoration upstairs in my barn. 
I did many hours of DX ing and listening to AM hams in the northeast here (you know who I mean!!) I was located in South Weymouth at the time not far from the U.S. Navy base.  My first com receiver was a Hallicrafters S-40A, Followed by a couple of Heathkits that I still have.  73's Ross W1EKG

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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
 		 	   		  
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