RadioBanter - View Single Post - two idiots bidding to reward radio mart lies

January 2nd 06, 03:20 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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I noticed he didn't get much for that Collins "designed" R390A. BTW,
can you believe this bull**** on the 392 he has for sale:
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My first good receiver was a Brog Warner R392/URR, to give the full
designation.
A great receiver. I still "own" it, but it is on permanant loan to a
friend with a bit
of surivialist streak. He wanted something that would continue working
after aNEMP.

Like I said, a great receiver BUT....
It was a PITA to rapidly try to go from say 5.100MHz to 23.869MHz.
AM and CW were great. FM via slope detection was passible, but
SSB was a major PITA. No noise blanker.

It was portable and would operate for several days from a set of car
batteries in series, especially if you pulled tha t@#$^ audio output
tube.
I used, and still use, a set of Sennheiser HD424 high z (2K) stereo
headphones that the driver supplied more then enough AF to bust your
ear drums. I added a set of back to back 1N4004s to limit the pain from
static crashes.

While it was fairly stable, it was nowhere near as stable as a R390.
And while it was very quite and reasonably sensitive, in most locations
the extra quitness and sensitivity are not needed. An again a R390A
is quiter and about 10dB more sensitive.

Unless someone has to have every last radio designed by Collins I
really
can't think of any good reason to buy one.

But I guess there is no accounting for taste.

While portable, it weighed in at something like 80lbs. And with two
full sized,
as in from the days when we all drove V8ss, a set of batteries wasn't
exactly
light either. My wife had a VW "Transporter" that was great for camping
and
hauling that heavy equipment around. We had many fun filled
mini-DXpeditions,
but I don't really miss lugging that heavy radio back in to the house
at the end
of such camp outs.

Terry

Borg Warner made transmissions, that R-392 was probably made by Stewart
Warner Corp.

Les