[Boatanchors] Re: [R-390]much to Pay? Amelco/ Capehart

[Michael OBrien]

Hi All

I asked the same type of question a few years ago and
this is what I was told:

Here is the story on the Amelco/Teledyne connection.

The Amelco story starts with Teledyne.  In the fall of
1960 Dr. Henry 
Singleton
and Dr. George Kozmetsky left Litton Industries and
formed Teledyne 
Inc.
Teledyne's first acquisition was to purchase a small
electronic "build 
to
print" manufacturing company in Los Angeles named
Amelco, which was 
located on
Panama Street in Culver City. Amelco was the first
operating company of
Teledyne. They bid and won contract 35064-PC-62 for
the manufacture of 
R-390A's
in late in early 1962. The first units were
manufactured and shipped 
with the
name Amelco on the name tags. Before all units on this
contract were 
shipped,
the name of the company was changed to Teledyne
Systems Corporation and 
the
remaining units under this contract were shipped under
that name. 

     In the meantime, another Los Angles area company
named Imperial 
won
contract 37856-PC-63 to make R-390As.  Teledyne
acquired Imperial 
shortly
thereafter, and all units shipped under the names
Amelco, Teledyne 
Systems
Corporation and Imperial were manufactured and shipped
from the plant 
on Panama
Street in Culver City. According to my research, about
7600 radios were 
built
by Teledyne under the three company names and two
orders.  

In summary, the Teledyne production of R-390As looked
something like 
this (hope
the tabs don't mess it up):

Badge Name			Order No. 		High s.n. noted

Amelco				35064-PC-62		2540		
Teledyne Systems Corp		35064-PC-62		3642
Imperial			37856-PC-63		3022
Teledyne Systems Corp		37856-PC-63		3976

Total Production, at least 7619 sets.

Hope this helps.

73 Tom N5OFF


--- Michael OBrien <mikobrien at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have 2 r-390a receivers with the same order # but
2
> different companys The order # is 35064-pc-62 The
> companys are Amelco (# 1453) and Teledyne (# 2702)
> The Amelco was bought from a ham and the Teledyne
came
> from fair radio. It looks the Amelco has a Amelco rf
> deck with Teledyne pc-63 audio and PS
> The Teledyne unit is mixed Would anyone know about
> this order # ?
> 
> Also does anyone know how to remove or fix the RTTY
> control on the BFO (my Amelco) The black part with
the
> numbers dial is loose and turns when  you rotate the
> knob
> 
> Thanks
> Mike


--- odyslim at comcast.net wrote:

> I was told that Amelco and Capehart were made in the
> same building .
> Is this true. Does anybody know? My reason for
> asking is I have an 
> Amelco with come Capehart parts inside.
> 
>  Scott W3CV
>   
>  -------------- Original message
> ----------------------
> From: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
> > Yea with a blank serial number spot so you can
> stamp anything you want in 
> > there.....and a botched up contract number so it's
> hard to figure out which 
> > contract it really came from.
> > 
> > How about some Fowler rubber stamps for module
> marking....
> > 
> > Guy could make a fortune.....
> > 
> > R-390A counterfeiting....there's no law against
> that is there?
> > 
> > Nomex undies on!
> > Cecil....
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <radiograveyard at aol.com>
> > To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:38 PM
> > Subject: [R-390] Now how much to Pay?
> > 
> > 
> > > Lets make it a real hold out a Fowler plate
> > >
>
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