AK>Ed Vance wrote to TOM WALKER Subject: Boat Anchors

AK> EV> I was onboard several Aircraft Carriers 1960-1962 and there
AK> EV> were R-390 receivers in the Radio Room but they weren't in the URR
AK> EV> style case.


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.

AK>Lots of fun times.

Al,

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

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

I read Your message a few days ago and just got around to answering it.

After I read it I thought about the WRR-2 RX I listened on while the
ship was docked in Japan, I heard a K6 on it.

Here are some more URLs I found the other day when I went looking to see
if I remembered the correct model number for the WRR-2 RX.


http://www.navy-radio.com/navy-rcvrs.htm

http://www.navy-radio.com/index.htm

http://www.virhistory.com/navy/ship.htm

Hope You enjoy looking at these also.

73 de Ed W9ODR    .-     -...  ..  --.     .-..  ..  -..     .-.-.-


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