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!
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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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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!
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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
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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.

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.

My provider just sent this my way, posted here in part. A quick email back,
including ALL of Mr. Fort's postings leading up to this made things alright. It
seems Telus is very understanding when the offended party has very dirty hands
in the matter. They understood that I'm not the sole participant in this daring
expose on necrophilia in the United States.


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We are writing to inform you that TELUS has received a complaint alleging that
your TELUS Internet Service account has been involved in unlawful activity.
This complaint was traced back to your account based on the IP address used at
the time of this activity.

Below is an excerpt from the complaint that we received regarding your account.
We include it in this notice in an effort to help you identify the activity that
is in question.

Thank you,

Dale
Internet Abuse Team Member
Consumer Customer Operations
TELUS Communications
http://www.telus.com/aup
Email:

* Please include the original email in any reply.

Excerpt from complaint:
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X-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:16:13 EDT (news1.west.cox.net) Telamon wrote:

My news server must be on the fritz only 8 posts for today? This is a
100 to 300 posts a day news group.


Well, you've kill filed between 92 and 292 people so far, so your shortage of
posts should not be a surprise.


mike



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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

US M/Sgt. Tracy Fort 116 AMX 250 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Robins ANG,
GA. 31098-2009

http://www.qrz.com/detail/KE4ODD
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end of Telus email to me, concerning a report of ILLEGAL activity from my
account from Tracy Fort.



mike