hello Ed,

On Wed 2012-Apr-04 22:06, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to AL KAISER:

AK>I was in the service and used the R-390s. They were a great receiver.  Even
AK>though they were an AM receiver, if you turned the BFO on and then set the
AK>offset + or - about 1 KC you could listen to SSB with them. I spent many
AK>Late Watches just DXing the bands with the big receiving antennas in Puerto
AK>Rico on a spare receiver while waiting for traffic to come in.

EV> IMHO there is nothing wrong with turning on the BFO on a 'AM' RX. 

EV> My first RX was a Hallicrafters S-38E, it had a switch to turn on a
EV> BFO to listen to CW or SSB (if you could call the circuitry in the
EV> S-38E a BFO) IIRC it was just a wire routed around some sections in
EV> the chassis that got 'switched in'.

YEp, my first receivers were general coverage types, to
receive cw or ssb one had to engage the bfo.  First straight receiver I
owned which had a usb lsb rx position was a
HEathkit sb-303.  I never minded it that much .



73
           Richard, nf5b
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