[R-390] Mini BNC

[quartz55]

How about Tennessee in code? I always liked that one.  Too bad can't get 
a call sign like that.  I like my vanity call to as opposed to my old 
K3MWT, nice and short.

Dave
N3DT

Dave
On 4/9/2014 3:00 PM, Tisha Hayes wrote:
> Chris,
> That is a 75 ohm connector. The R-390A connector was a bit of a freak. From
> the very old literature I had found on it there seemed to be some
> distancing from the idea of giving it any sort of electrical
> characteristics.
>
> A few years ago I went through the parts list for the R-390A and found the
> national stock number for those dratted connections. After extensive
> searching I was able to track it down to a very old catalog that showed the
> commercial (non-mil) part numbers. It seemed like an afterthought. Right
> now I cannot find what I did with that information, it is somewhere in my
> collection of stuff. The same search process can be repeated, it was
> tedious.
>
> I bought a few scrap RF decks that were doorstops at a hamfest and an IF
> deck that had been cannibalized for the filters so I picked up a set of
> plugs and connectors. I bought some of that teflon coax from eBay and made
> extension jumpers and I also made another so I could add a 9 KHz roofing
> filter (one of those little torsional filters, really cute) between the RF
> and IF decks.
>
> It was frustrating enough that I was sorely tempted to tear out those
> connectors and just put SMA connectors everywhere (that noise is Art
> Collins rolling over in his grave). I ended up not doing that because these
> poor radios have to endure enough hacks as it is.
>
> --------------------------------
>
> Yes, my callsign is a double-pun with an additional meaning AA-HA! and
> "AAay four HAy" but the HA at the end is also the first two letters of my
> last name "Hayes". In CW it makes a very distinctive sound (that some find
> confusing when sent fast, like maybe my keyer was stuck with dits). [.- .-
> ...- .... .-]. (ooh, I would really want AA4EE).
>
>
> Ms. Tisha Hayes. AA4HA
>
>   *"There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in
> the town; they are wasting their time. It is possible to be a solitary in
> one's mind while living in a crowd; and it is possible for those who are
> solitaries to live in the crowd of their own thoughts."*
> *-Amma Sarah of the Desert*
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