RW>hello Ed,
Hi Richare,

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

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

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

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

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

I got a Drake 2-B later on to use with a Heathkit "Apache" TX-1.

Neither one of them were New, just 'new' to me.

Both of them are nice rigs.


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