[R-390] The radio machine, getting bit by the bug

[Guido Santacana]

It started back in 67. I had an old transistor radio with one SW band and antenna jack. A cousin told me how to make and connect a shortwave antenna to this radio. I built it from scrap stranded steel cable left over from a TV mast installation. Wood pieces were used as insulators and a short piece of lamp cord served as feedline. It had to be used up in the roof. No solder anywhere. Just wrapped up connections. The moment I connected this antenna to the radio the SW band oppened up and the rest is history. Been a ham for 40 years and started with my first R390A back in 79.

73s

Guido Santacana KP4FAR

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> On Apr 15, 2016, at 12:50 AM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was bit by the bug when I was around ten years old. My father came back
> from some hamfest with an SP-200 in a complete cabinet with a crinkle black
> finish and the outrigger power supply. At nights I would sneak down to his
> radio room and turn it on to listen to HCJB or Radio Australia. He figured
> it out because the radio was never left on the ham bands.
> 
> A few years later that was gifted to me and he set it up on a little stand
> in my closet of my bedroom. That was it.
> 
> I learned morse code by the dits and dahs of TVI, trying to find out what
> was so important in those secret messages.
> 
> *Ms. Tisha Hayes*
> *"*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 **solitary to live in the crowd of
> their own thoughts.*"*
> **-Amma Syncletica of Alexandria**
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