[R-390] Posted R390A Problems

[Robert Moses]

Everyone has to start somewhere. There are a lot of newbies out there. 
Vacuum tube troubleshooting is not currently taught since it is 
considered obsolete. Keep the good questions coming! Otherwise this list 
will end up with such an aging population that obit notices will be 10% 
of the postings! It is fun for people to struggle with help from the 
answers on the list -- and learn how to troubleshoot and repair radios. 
Mentoring the newbies is essential to the survival of our hobby. (And 
without newbies the market for radios will quickly dry up.)

2002tii wrote:

>One thing that can frustrate at least some of the more experienced 
>hands (or perhaps just me) is the appearance that the person asking 
>hasn't made even the slightest attempt at troubleshooting before 
>asking for help -- as if they expect to just be given the answers 
>without any effort.  ("My radio is doing x, y, and z.  Can anybody 
>tell me what component to replace?")  If one wants to fix 390s 
>(and/or other things), one needs to invest the time and effort to 
>learn how to troubleshoot electronics.  It is one thing to help 
>someone who appears to be making an effort to learn, and I don't 
>think anyone here has a problem with that.  But diagnosing radios 
>from 500 miles away over a mailing list for someone who isn't 
>interested or can't be bothered to learn to troubleshoot things for 
>him- or herself gets old after a while.  IMO, that person should 
>think seriously about having someone else fix the radio rather than 
>pestering the list before having made any effort to find the problem first.
>
>/rant off/
>
>Best regards,
>
>Don
>
>
>
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