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#1
June 22nd 05, 10:13 PM
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New radio
beerbarrel wrote:
Picked up a nice r-392 today. And to think some folks think you can't gain anything from drinking beer other than a beer gut. I paid for it with money from recycling the cans from the beer that I drink when I hang out in the garage. Love dem bones! ----------------------------------------------- You must either have saved cans for a long time, drink one hell of a lot of beer, or found a R392 for a very good price. My first good SW was a R392. A great "portable" radio. Might have been why I have a hernia. I loved mine so much that instead of selling it, I loaned it to a friend with survialist outlook. It is a very good receiver. Somewhere on the web I found a link to a series of solid state modifications that looked interested. If I recall correctly it needs ~24V @3.9A. I ran mine from a split supply. Heaters +26.5V and the B+ at 30.00V. I used a LM317, with a 2N3055 for current boaster, and a slow power on supply that took ~60S to go from 1.2V to 26.5V. I ran the receiver from 1972 through 1984? and never lost a tube/valve from failed heater. The split supply kept the drift to something like ~50Hz an hour and removed the very minor freqeuncy jump when teh crystal oven heaters cycled. The only serious defect is the lack of a product detector. The only receiver that I have ever had that was quiter was the R390. I would strongly suggest replacing the audio output tube with a solid state replacement as it draws about half the heater current and makes the radio run much warmer. In a pinch you can couple the grids to the plates with decent caps for headphone use. The only thing I don't miss is the joy of lugging it to a camp site. Great way to stay in shape. And of course the digital tuning can get tedious. Crank crank crank... Terry |
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#2
June 23rd 05, 05:52 AM
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Greetings! A good friend of mine now a silent key had one and offered
it to me to take home. He said he didn't use it anyway. Sure enough he died and it is to my knowledge still sitting in his storage building. His wife has no interest in his radio stuff yet can't seem to part with anything. She has asked me to help her sell his stuff a time or two, but always changes her mind. You ask why didn't I take it home? I didn't have a power supply for it. I may still get a hold of it one day. I was very impressed with it, but I love a big radio. Great find! Have a great week! Jon. |
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#3
June 24th 05, 12:43 AM
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Wouldn't you actually have more money to buy an even better radio if
you stopped drinking beer altogether? As far as I can tell, beer costs more than 4 cents (5 if you don't live in California). |
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#4
June 24th 05, 06:24 AM
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beerbarrel wrote:
Picked up a nice r-392 today. And to think some folks think you can't gain anything from drinking beer other than a beer gut. I paid for it with money from recycling the cans from the beer that I drink when I hang out in the garage. Love dem bones! What a waste of a beautiful radio. Somebody *please* save it from the drunkard. |
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#5
June 24th 05, 07:48 AM
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Yeah...ain't it nice? I'm even going to drink more beer and get a r-390
and sp-600. Just shows you what you can do when you drink lots of beer. |
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#6
June 24th 05, 10:27 AM
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Eric you might want to try cleaning house at the shack there. It looks
like you have that table overloaded just a might not to mention the electrical system in your shack. |
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#8
June 25th 05, 04:20 PM
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m II wrote:
Eric F. Richards wrote: What a waste of a beautiful radio. Somebody *please* save it from the drunkard. Don't state the obvious. He will send a fraudulent complaint of illegal Internet activity to your provider. He can sure dish it out, but he can't take the slightest criticism...not very mature. Oh, *that* would be good for a laugh. My personal news spool goes back 500 days for all users and forever for, ah, "special" ones. Like your very own canuck "Psycho Jim" who even you thought should be in a mental hospital. Anyway, I've got several hundred messages just under the "beerbarrel" name alone, which he started using late last year as a "login." He was going by Traci (with a smiley-face over the i) before that. |
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#9
June 25th 05, 11:04 PM
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Eric F. Richards wrote:
Anyway, I've got several hundred messages just under the "beerbarrel" name alone, which he started using late last year as a "login." He was going by Traci (with a smiley-face over the i) before that. Remember when, over countless posts, he was trying to insult Brenda Ann? She's one of the most knowledgeable and nicest people here. By him repeatedly attacking her, I learned what 'bierbarrel©'(1) was worth as a human being. He appears to have no redeeming qualities. Even his unredeeming qualities are boring at best...the moral equivalent of ''tard' and 'tote'. Yawwwnnn... (1) © Honus mike -- (This space reserved) |
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