[R-390] $5000.00 390A????

[chacuff]

Well lets not paint the entire Ham community with one big brush.  Contrary 
to what some believe the participants in Amateur Radio are just as varied as 
those who collect and restore tubed radio's.  We all have our little 
oddities....well except me of course...HA!

I have been involved in many different aspects of the RF hobbies from CB 
through RC airplanes...with SWLing and Amateur Radio DXing and Contesting 
the most interesting to me.  I still listen on the SW bands...I find it 
relaxing.  I'm more interested in the technical side of all the RF hobbies. 
Not much interest in Rag Chewing and never been on AM.  Yup...blasphemey.

Setup to do a 160 Meter DX contest recently...had a weather balloon 
supporting a 1/4 wave vertical over a bunch of 100' ground radials, a RX 
antenna a couple wavelengths away made up of a HI-Z 4 square...all in a open 
field of probably 30 acres running on generator power all weekend...what a 
Hoot!  Worked All States on 160 Meters in 48 hours.

Did a little MW DXing after it was all over with the 4 square....Les 
Locklear and myself tuned all over the band on that antenna and an Icom 
7700.

There is fun in it for everybody....

Cecil
K5DL


>
> I started out as SWL at the age of 13. When I tripped over something late
> one night on the Shortwave bands and dialed it in
> and found it to be two of our bombers comming back from theirs missions 
> over
> Vietnam, well that hooked me.
>
> it hooked me on RADIO, not ham radio, not SWL radio, but communications.