RW>hello Ed,   
   Hi Richare,   
      
   RW>On Wed 2012-Apr-04 22:06, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to AL KAISER:   
      
   RW>AK>I was in the service and used the R-390s. They were a great receiver.    
   Eve   
   RW>AK>though they were an AM receiver, if you turned the BFO on and then set   
   the   
   RW>AK>offset + or - about 1 KC you could listen to SSB with them. I spent many   
   RW>AK>Late Watches just DXing the bands with the big receiving antennas in   
   Puert   
   RW>AK>Rico on a spare receiver while waiting for traffic to come in.   
      
   RW>EV> IMHO there is nothing wrong with turning on the BFO on a 'AM' RX.   
      
   RW>EV> My first RX was a Hallicrafters S-38E, it had a switch to turn on a   
   RW>EV> BFO to listen to CW or SSB (if you could call the circuitry in the   
   RW>EV> S-38E a BFO) IIRC it was just a wire routed around some sections in   
   RW>EV> the chassis that got 'switched in'.   
      
   RW>YEp, my first receivers were general coverage types, to   
   RW>receive cw or ssb one had to engage the bfo.  First straight receiver I   
   owned   
   RW>which had a usb lsb rx position was a   
   RW>HEathkit sb-303.  I never minded it that much .   
      
   I got a Drake 2-B later on to use with a Heathkit "Apache" TX-1.   
      
   Neither one of them were New, just 'new' to me.   
      
   Both of them are nice rigs.   
      
      
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