Re: [IRCA] 388 question

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

Woops sorry, sent to the wrong place,

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
KB1OKL


>From: "Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
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>Subject: [IRCA] 388 question
>Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:25:19 -0500
>
>
>Hi Z,
>
>I have a question for you:
>I finally got a 388 and it is everything you've said they would be, I love
>it. My question is when in the crystal position it seems to oscillate for a
>second when the two knobs are tapped and the center frequency will sometime
>move about 1 khz from position to position, ex. from 200 cycles then to a
>wider postition I will have to retune, this is with the BFO on or off. I'm
>positve it's not a tube, it is coming from somewhere in the crystal
>selectivity box (or whatever you call it) Does this most likely seem like
>bad contacts on the selectivity switch itself, or probably a bad connection
>somewhere inside of it? I also get this same thing with an HRO-60 I have 
>but
>not anywhere enar as bad. Could the crystal itself just being old do this?
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>It's 18 degrees here today at 1:23 pm, heatwave time. 1 degree last night,
>lovely weather,
>
>bob
>
> >From: Milspec390@xxxxxxx
> >Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
> >America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [IRCA] FW: HD radios in a store near you
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:02:10 EST
> >
> >Bob & IRCA auteurs -
> >
> >Misleading. Fine word. Aptly describes every syllable pouring like
> >untreated
> >dysentery ward wastewater from HD Cotillion's big fat gubs.
> >
> >Non-DXer civilians increasingly post that everything re HD is a lie.
> >
> >Understandably so. Failed obsolete concept poorly executed, promoted sub
> >rosa
> >by undue influence and publicly by overblown fanciful tales promising 
>'new
> >golden age of radio'.
> >
> >Public disinterest becomes public disappointment upon purchase of HD
> >receiver
> >
> >Isn't this the wretched 90s model yet again?
> >
> >Never admit a mistake. Lie. Deny. Shift blame. Tell more lies. Threaten.
> >
> >All the hallmarks of Three Card Monte artistes. How else can they defend
> >this
> >ruinous plague other than by lying?
> >
> >Every pro-HD argument is either long invalidated or easily so done by six
> >year old slo-wits.
> >
> >Streams? What streams? The same record over and over? Spare us.
> >
> >Impervious to noise? Which? The awful noise it creates or the fact it's 
>far
> >more easily disrupted by ordinary interference than is analog?
> >
> >Two-hundred million dollar ad campaign? But it's in 'equivalent' money.
> >
> >Right. Tried paying your property taxes in that peculiar currency? Who 
>they
> >kidding?
> >
> >CD Quality audio? Points off for misspelling - 'seedy quality', as one
> >engineer calls it.
> >
> >Oh, well, who cares? Time to hack weeds & brush, sun's out. Plenty Cubano
> >stations to be savored on SR-III's superb AM audio inna warm sun, 
>wielding
> >chainsaw, it must be -
> >
> >  Leatherface Wednesday.
> >
> >                                                           as ever,
> >
> >                                                               z
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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