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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! ----------------------------------------------- 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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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave From: beerbarrel - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:24:41 -0400 Local: Wed,Jun 22 2005 7:24 pm Subject: New radio Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 29, 7:24 pm). On 22 Jun 2005 14:13:57 -0700, wrote: 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. 2 out of 3 ain't bad! I paid 200 dollars for one with a power supply. Which according to ebay pricing is a pretty good deal. I've been wanting to get one and was going to wait until the hamfest at shelby but went ahead and picked this one up. I've done a good bit of research on the 392 and have mods in mind that I would like to accomplish. Is there a commercially available solidstae replacement or is that a homebrew project? My next rig will be a 390. Maybe that is what I will look for at Shelby. I like those old boatanchors. Lucily I have a place to put them and they won't get moved around too much. If I turn on 3 or 4 at once during the winter I can turn off the heat too. Tracy -------------------------------- I don't know if anyone offers one. You might check "Fair Radio Sales", in Lima OH, they have listed the mil-spec modules from time to time. I only heard one once, and it sounded "gritty" to me, but it was at a ham field day, and it was used with the mil-spec phenolic speaker, so the speaker may have been the problem. I have been tempted a time or two to mod mine, but my friend listens to "hate filled" radio (RHC) and I really don't have the time to add yet another project to my overfilled list.... This is the only link Ihave that still works. I may have some on a backup image, it will be this weekend at the earliest before I can restor them and see what is there. http://www.roveroresearch.com/r392/hints.html (the mosfet idea looks real interesting) Terry |
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. |
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). |
Hey! Don't insult my Kaito KA-1101! It works well (but not as well as
my ATS-909). |
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. |
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. |
No insult intended...I just don't really care for them. I like the
sangean's though. |
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. |
Greetings Tracy! It may be a dumb question but what is a switcher? I
have never heard the term before. I am familiar with Fair Radio Sales. Never bought anything from them before. Thanks for the answer in advance! Have a great weekend! Jon. |
Jon,
In addition, switching power supplies can be rather noisey and interfere with radio reception but they are more efficient than linear supplies. The original supplies were linear power supplies. Linear power supplies are somewhat wasteful but they work well in the radio environment. While being large and heavy, I would still like to get an original supply for this radio along with the transmitter. I did find a complete setup for 900 dollars in Tampa but I don't have the time to go get it right now. Tracy |
beerbarrel wrote:
Actually I did not complain. But everytime I read your sig it cracks me up even more. Your ignorance and lies are showing yet again. That complaint was forwarded via cox.net. As far as I know, *YOU* are the only poster here from cox.net. Path from your forwarded message to abuse: news1.west.cox.net!west.cox.net!filt01.west.cox.ne t!peer01.west.cox.net!cox.net!newscon06.news.prodi gy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!news feed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!clgrps13.P OSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail My original posting in the " What happened to the news group?" thread: edtnps82!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telusp lanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!clgrps13.POSTED!53ab2 750!not-for-mail Caught in another lie, Fort.. Really sad when you play the nonchalant, devil may care necrophiliac on the newsgroup, but behind the scenes you become the petty little failure of a human being that you are. Did the military teach you dishonesty, or did you pick it up on your own? How about that apology to all the victims of cancer and their families? This ..sig can end here and now, with just a simple public apology from you. mike -- Tracy Fort's necrophilia and a seventy two year old cancer victim: Dug her ass right up! She was too damn ugly to have sex with before she died. The old bag o bones fell apart in my hands! She didn't complain about much either other than the lousy sex she got from those foursomes with you, Mike and her husband. love dem bones....dem bones....dem bones M/Sgt. Tracy Fort 116 AMX 250 Martin Luther King Blvd. Robins ANG, GA. 31098-2009 http://www.qrz.com/detail/KE4ODD |
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. |
beerbarrel wrote:
Jon, In addition, switching power supplies can be rather noisey and interfere with radio reception but they are more efficient than linear Well designed and built switching power supplies can be as quiet as the better linear power supplies, and quieter than the cheap ones. Most AM radio stations are buying solid state transmitters which are not much more than a modified 1 to 50 KW switching power supply. supplies. The original supplies were linear power supplies. Linear power supplies are somewhat wasteful but they work well in the radio environment. While being large and heavy, I would still like to get an original supply for this radio along with the transmitter. I did find a complete setup for 900 dollars in Tampa but I don't have the time to go get it right now. Tracy Oh no! Not Tampa! Just kidding Tracy. ;-) -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
beerbarrel wrote:
I might be willing to meet you half way when you admit that you started this fight by saying that I had sex with my sister. Do I need to repost that? Let me save you the trouble. Here it is. I never mentioned sex. Your fevered imagination, combined with what appears to be poor reading comprehension, did. As the rest of us know, the best reason to go the wood shed is to get wood. Your sister may have had a tough time carrying in the wood because of the weight. She may have had a tough time chopping the wood and needed help with that. She may well have needed an opinion as to how long the existing wood stockpile would last before more sawing and splitting was in order. She may have well wanted to know the BTU content of pine compared to maple. She could easily do that, as she's always been smarter than you and much more aware of the world she lives in. Now, given these very valid reasons to be called to the wood shed, I find it very telling that you automatically thought of *SEX* as the first option. You are obviously one sick puppy. Your own sister...shame...you make decent human beings everywhere throw up.(*) (*) Good taste not applicable in Mississippi, Georgia and elsewhere where prohibited by law. ================================================ ================================================ -------- Original Message -------- Path: clgrps11!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed2.telusp lanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps90.POSTED!53ab2 750!not-for-mail From: m II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050501 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Lotta QRM on this forum References: . com 9fJse.50774$wr.17052@clgrps12 XP5te.68693$on1.66257@clgrps13 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Message-ID: l6ete.80991$tt5.6376@edtnps90 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:07:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.53.255.9 X-Trace: edtnps90 1119186449 198.53.255.9 (Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:07:29 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:07:29 MDT Xref: news.telusplanet.net rec.radio.shortwave:436168 peebarrel wrote: ...inconsequential hillbilly nonsense... I hear your sister calling you from the woodshed... mike ================================================== ===== ================================================== ===== -- Tracy Fort's necrophilia and a seventy two year old cancer victim: Dug her ass right up! She was too damn ugly to have sex with before she died. The old bag o bones fell apart in my hands! She didn't complain about much either other than the lousy sex she got from those foursomes with you, Mike and her husband. love dem bones....dem bones....dem bones M/Sgt. Tracy Fort 116 AMX 250 Martin Luther King Blvd. Robins ANG, GA. 31098-2009 http://www.qrz.com/detail/KE4ODD |
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) |
beerbarrel wrote:
You are absolutely right! I will formulate my apology and post it in a minutes.... I wish I could believe you. Something sinister is afoot. mike |
beerbarrel wrote:
That's where the good stuff is Mike! All those old folks go down there, retire and take the good stuff with them. It was a nice setup the guy had. It was all original with the P/S, transmitter, and receiver. It just needed the antenna. You are pretty close to Tampa aren't you? Tracy Closer to Ocala, and "The Villages" where thousands of retirees move in every year. Let me know if you're ever down here and maybe we can meet to say hello. I am getting used computers from some of them for my "Computers for Veterans" project. I collect and repair, then give away computers to disabled Veterans, and Veterans who are down on their luck. There is a link on the right side of the "Organization" line of this message header that will take you to the website I have started building. It explains more of what I'm trying to do. A brief mention was made in the "Community Bulletin Board" in the local paper last week. I received 25 e-mails and two phone numbers from people who want to donate parts, software, and full computer systems.. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
Hey! You guys should be nice like me. he he he :)
-- 73 and good DX. B.H. Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm |
Brian Hill wrote:
Hey! You guys should be nice like me. he he he :) Why lower my niceness level? g mike -- Tracy Fort's necrophilia and a seventy two year old cancer victim: =============================================== Dug her ass right up! She was too damn ugly to have sex with before she died. The old bag o bones fell apart in my hands! She didn't complain about much either other than the lousy sex she got from those foursomes with you, Mike and her husband. love dem bones....dem bones....dem bones Please accept my apology for abusing her. I'm sorry that I did not toss her back into the black depths that she came from. Next time,I will be sure to take care of that. I promise that I will refill the hole with the dirt that came out too. In addition, I will re sod the plot at no additional charge. Let me also apologize for the milky substance in her left eye socket, that was an unavoidable accident. please feel free to include this post in your sig file! Dem Bones! Dem Bones! Dem Bones! I loved playing dem Bones! Dem Bones! Dem Bones! Dem Bones! I loved playing dem Bones! I ran my fingers uo and down dem bones and she began to come alive! I played dem bones like they never been played and she smiled for me all the day. M/Sgt. Tracy Fort 116 AMX 250 Martin Luther King Blvd. Robins ANG, GA. 31098-2009 http://www.qrz.com/detail/KE4ODD ================================================ |
"m II" wrote in message news:mwove.59460$wr.43512@clgrps12... Brian Hill wrote: Hey! You guys should be nice like me. he he he :) Why lower my niceness level? g mike Follow me and drink the Kool-Aid my son. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! B.H. |
Brian Hill wrote:
Follow me and drink the Kool-Aid my son. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! ....must not follow the smiling pitcher..must not...must..ahh heck..he seems nice enough...tra la tra la llaaalllaalllaaa... http://route6walk.com/PastArticles/a...HOTOS/0127.jpg mike (skipping in blissful ignorance) II -- (this space reserved) |
"m II" wrote in message news:WSove.76117$HI.54445@edtnps84... Brian Hill wrote: Follow me and drink the Kool-Aid my son. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! ...must not follow the smiling pitcher..must not...must..ahh heck..he seems nice enough...tra la tra la llaaalllaalllaaa... http://route6walk.com/PastArticles/a...HOTOS/0127.jpg mike (skipping in blissful ignorance) II So -that's- what you look like! Nice lederhosen. |
Honus wrote:
http://route6walk.com/PastArticles/a...HOTOS/0127.jpg So -that's- what you look like! Nice lederhosen. Danke...I was held captive for twenty years in the Trapp family basement and as a result have a lifelong allergy to Edelweiss. Achoo...ohh..sorry...achtchoo damn accents... mike -- (this space reserved for exclusive use by the NecroCon Party of Georgia, USA. President: Trace Fort) |
beerbarrel wrote:
I'll bet that is a full time job! I probably have no telling what up in the attic. I'm afraid to throw it out thinking that I will probably need it one day. I might just ship it all to you. Is there anything that you need off hand? It is, when you can only work a couple hours a day! I can always use 1 GB or larger hard drives, memory and modems. I get plenty of monitors and printers, even though most of the printers are missing the ink cartridges so its a real pain to test them. I asked for empty cartridges that I could refill on the Ocala Freecycle group, and was asked to unsubscribe because they don't believe anyone would repair and give away computers. We are going down to Treasure Island or Maderia sometime in July. I know that is still quite a bit north of you is it not? Most people around here head to Destin or PC to vacation at the beach but I like going south of Tampa for smaller crowds. Tracy If you take I-75 to Tampa you pass a couple miles from my place in Ocala. I'm about 10 miles from either the Hwy 200 or Hwy 484 exits. I haven't been to Destin, since I built Ch 58 in the early '90s. I drove up I-75, across I-10 and I think it was Hwy 301 down to Hwy 98 to the east of Sandestin. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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