[R-390] Some of you will hate this

[Norm n3ykf]

Could have been a beer can. If I were it, I'd be grateful.

Norm n3ykf

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Back in the 1970s I couldn't afford an R-390A, but could afford an
> R-392.  Considering the latter to be Really Ugly I constructed a new
> front panel and got rid of the military case.  This was my main
> general coverage receiver for several years.
>
> You'll see one blooper - the plug in a hole marked BANDWIDTH.  I had
> intended to put a shaft and right-angle gear to attach to the bandwidth
> switch, but for some reason I built and attached an AC power supply that was
> right in the way of running that shaft.  Well it turned out the
> bandwidth switch inside was partly broken anyway, so I don't want to turn
> it.
>
> Recently I replaced the 26A7 tube with the FET circuit that someone
> posted as a direct plug-in replacement.
>
> I admit, by today's standards, I destroyed an artifact.  But in the 1970s
> I had a nice rack-mount station receiver.
>
> Jim W6JVE
>
>
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