hello Ed,   
      
   On Wed 2012-Apr-04 22:06, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to AL KAISER:   
      
   AK>I was in the service and used the R-390s. They were a great receiver.  Even   
   AK>though they were an AM receiver, if you turned the BFO on and then set the   
   AK>offset + or - about 1 KC you could listen to SSB with them. I spent many   
   AK>Late Watches just DXing the bands with the big receiving antennas in Puerto   
   AK>Rico on a spare receiver while waiting for traffic to come in.   
      
   EV> IMHO there is nothing wrong with turning on the BFO on a 'AM' RX.    
      
   EV> My first RX was a Hallicrafters S-38E, it had a switch to turn on a   
   EV> BFO to listen to CW or SSB (if you could call the circuitry in the   
   EV> S-38E a BFO) IIRC it was just a wire routed around some sections in   
   EV> the chassis that got 'switched in'.   
      
   YEp, my first receivers were general coverage types, to   
   receive cw or ssb one had to engage the bfo.  First straight receiver I owned   
   which had a usb lsb rx position was a   
   HEathkit sb-303.  I never minded it that much .   
      
      
      
   73   
              Richard, nf5b   
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