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I bought the DX-440 about '89 or '90 to get over this girl I'd just broke up with...Then, I started reading Popular Communications & kept reading that "This radio is as good as an R-390A" or "That radio is almost as good as an R-390A". There was a guy, Rick Mish, who had ads in the back of the mag, "Miltronix, R-390/390A Sales & Service", I called him, & soon became the proud daddy of a 1968 Dittmore-Friemuth R-390A...Then, I started reading "Electric Radio" magazine & found out about stuff like SX-28s, SP-600s, R-389s, R-392s, R-391s, RA-17s, SX-73s, NC-183Ds, SX-62s, & a mysterious German set, the EK-07...20 years later, I are the proud, but considerably poorer, daddy of EACH of those, plus a WHOLE lot more...People who see 'em are either 1) Floored, 2) Dumbfounded that I have SO MANY old junky, too-big tube radios that all do more or less the same thing, or 3) Think that I have a SERIOUS personality problem/defect. Myself, I pick 3.
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Benevolent Despot
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