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All that's needed is for
him to obtain a valid amateur radio license, and an amateur radio station.

Why are you so focussed on all MUST have a ham license to
discuss anything in here?

Where did I say that?

Anyone can discuss here. I have seen no postings where somebody has told Len to
"shut up", even though he has told others to "shut the hell up".

Credibility is another issue.

You've discussed. You just have no experience in amateur radio, no
stake in amateur radio and no credibility in amateur radio. You needn't
have an amateur radio license at all. Does that clear things up for you?

I don't think Len understands.

More tsk. My choice of residence location is NOT primarily
motivated by any slavering desire to erect a radio station of
any kind.

Great. It looks like you've got your wish.

To each his own. But from descriptions and mapquest, it appears that Len's
choice was a particularly poor one for HF radio operations.

My Cincinnati home was
somewhat motivated by a desire for a good radio location. My present
home was selected in large part by a desire for a great radio location
with few neighbors. In addition, I have dark skies, a view to die for
and quiet which city and suburban dwellers don't even notice they don't
have.

Some of us notice.

Residences are HOMES, a place of living.

Avocations are part of living. Amateur radio is part of my life, and part of
the definition of "home" to me. Others may differ, of course.

Residences mean many things to many owners. My living here includes
amateur radio, guitars, computers, astronomy, reading, writing,
photography, videography. I have neighbors who do none of those things.
Their residences are for what they enjoy doing in their manner of
living.

What a concept!

I've lived ON a huge radio station long ago, one much bigger than
is possible in any residential area.

But it wasn't Len's radio station. He didn't own it, build it, or pay for it.
He and over 700 others ran it. Was their *job*.

Not my idea of living for the
rest of my life...but important back then.

Yes, it was.

Amateur radio stations are important, too.

If you want to live ON
or IN a radio station, feel free to apply for a broadcasting license
and make sure the local ordinances allow living on business
premises.

It sounds like what Len is saying is that we hams should not be allowed to have
our stations in our homes. He has made similar remarks before. I think if it
were up to Len, most of us hams would be forced off the air by a variety of
forces.

How does Len feel about anti-antenna ordinances?

I currently live in the midst of a goodly sized radio station. I didn't
need to apply for a broadcasting license. I have no business on the
site and it wouldn't matter anyway. This county has very few
restrictions or zoning laws.

I've lived "on" a radio station since 1967.

For a small part of my life the radio station complex was built
ON an old airfield. Not even the old Press Wireless station
in Palos Verdes, CA, (the one bought by a ham) was that large.

But did Len *own* it, or was he simply a resident?

I used to live on, and own, part of the Erie Canal, too.

...but one man, Don Wallace W6AM bought that 25 acre Press Wireless
site, complete with rhombics and the large building which formerly
housed the station. He used it primarily for DXing and contests.

Yup. Do you know where KH6IJ used to live?

End result is "can't fix it because the
parts cannot be had". It is probably easier to restore a 40 year old
R-390A
or 75S3 than a 20 year old R-70, if certain parts are needed.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!

It's true.

Riiiiight.

Yes, it is.

Try to find a replacement for an R-390 power transformer...

Easy. Get one from a hangar queen. Lots of them out there. Not inexpensive but
anyone who deals with '390s knows that.

or anything inside that PTO...even in 1980... :-)

Wrong again, Len.

The modular construction of the R-390A permits a lot of repair to be done by
module-swapping. PTOs for those receivers are not hard to find, and most
versions can be rebuilt and recalibrated in the typical basement workshop with
a few tools and parts.

There are, in fact, numerous sources for such parts.

Yep. Also lots of information and even "professional quality" instruction
videos on how to restore them. In fact, the internet has made them *more*
available. Check out

http://www.r390A.com

for one such source, and links to many others.

btw, the R390A was produced by a number of manufacturers from 1954 to at least
1984. Although many were destroyed (because the govt.either didn't know or
didn't care about what they were worth), many survive as either working
receivers or parts sources.

Last vacuum tube receiver I DESIGNED and built was in 1964-1965.

Did you do that at work or as a "hobby" project?

HF. Wasn't for listening to on-off keyed radiotelegraphy! [horrors!]

Description? Pictures? Performance?

Terrible thing! NOT A LICENSED AMATEUR DESIGNING AND
BUILDING AN HF RADIO! Call out the radio police!

And how many HF receivers have you designed and built as a "hobby" in the
intervening ~40 years?

No license was or is required to build a receiver. In fact, no license
was or is required to build an amateur radio transmitter. You'll need
one if you want to hook it to an antenna and transmit though.

You also need one in order to sell a transmitter.

It didn't use any "recycled parts."

A pity that you had nothing useable on hand.

When I asked Len for help in designing an HF station, all he could offer was to
point me to the Digi-Key catalog. That explained a lot, actually, because it
told me that Len doesn't really know how to do home design and construction of
radios. Nor how to be creative in the use of available components rather than
just what's in the catalogs.

That's not a put-down, just a fact. While Len talks a lot of theory, and what
he did as a "professional" way back when, home construction of HF receivers,
transmitters and transceivers just isn't his thing. Look at his articles in
'ham radio' - none of them are radio construction articles.

73 de Jim, N2EY