[Milsurplus] 1980's Navy R-390A's

[joldenburg2 at new.rr.com]

As the St Juilians massauare sale took place in April 1997 ( witth recivers alegedly being stored outdoors since early 1996) they must have been stockpiles in a warehousse some where. The Fowler contract recivers where a fluke of the bid specs for the ships had been written in 1968 and had speced the R-390a. Fowler bid on that prtion of the contract legend has and the Fowler cotract ended when it was seen the high cost per unit for an item in srplus on hand.

---- Don Merz <n3rht at yahoo.com> wrote: 

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Well, if you go back and look in the old CQ and 73 Magazines, maybe QST too, you 
will occasionally see ads in the back for military electonics wanted with a long 
list of surplus gear, some of it quite old. Speculation was that these ads were 
for third-world countries revamping their military electonics. But maybe some of 
that was for the good ole USN.

73, Don merz, N3RHT

 


----- Original Message ----
From: J. Forster <jfor at quik.com>
To: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
Cc: Military Surplus Mail List <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, March 10, 2011 4:27:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] 1980's Navy R-390A's

Certainly not eBay. It didn't exist until the mid '90s.

-John

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> I have a 1986 document on the radio equipment aboard the Navy's FFG-7
> class frigates.
> Shown on an equipment layout amongst the R-1051's and other modern
> stuff is an R-390A
> Last night I found some photos of the communications center on a
> couple of these ships and sure enough, there's a familiar face.
> These particular two ships were commissioned in 1984 and 1986 - the 51
> ships in the class were built between 1977 and 1989 by Bath and Todd
> shipyards.
> OK, I know about Avondale and the Fowler R-390A's - but where did
> these 50 or so R-390A's come from??? Did the shipyards buy them on
> ebay or what?
> I checked with a fellow aboard FFG-40 and he says there is now a
> modern receiver in that rack.
> Photos for your amusement and edification at
> http://www.navy-radio.com/ships/ffg7.htm
>
> cheers,
> Nick K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
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