[Milsurplus] {Milsurplus] 390As were everywhere

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we had 2  of them at the transmitter site at Luke AFB  early 1970's as WWV  
and  backup WWV  for the  control tower...  sometimes at  night I would  go 
over and  use the spare  to SWL with!
 
 

Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 



In a message dated 3/10/2011 3:00:16 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
MillerKE6F at aol.com writes:

Back  in the early 70s my employer supplied the microwave link between   
Goldstone Tracking Station and JPL-Cal Tech in Pasadena.  While  making a  
visit 
to oversee the alignment and testing of a 240 KB  data link (That was the  
state of the art at the time to cram a  1/4 megabit signal into a Super 
Group  
Channel) that provided the  Deep Space Probe links from Goldstone to JPL I 
heard  the  familiar drone of WWV coming from one of the rows of equipment 
in  
the  Goldstone communications complex and was surprised to see  the  
Engineer/Technician taking a time hack from a trusty R390A  receiver tuned 
to 10  MHz. 
Although not an odd event, it did seem  strange in that every row of  
equipment in the room seemed to  have an HP Atomic clock literally ticking 
away  
the time on the  little clock the unit's face plate.  So even in the  
presence  
of super accurate time references, the old R390A was a hard habit  to  
break.  

73
Bob,  KE6F
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