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

[J. Forster]

I remember Columbia's stuff looked beautiful, like brand new.

Do you know if they did refurbs on it? There is a big difference between a
repaint and a full refurb.

Best,

-John

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> Back in the mid and into late '60s I bought and sold 'tons' of military
> surplus commo gear and test equipment.  Came from Ft Riley, Ft Carson,
> Schilling, Forbes and McConnell AFB's.  Hardly any Navy stuff(duh
> Kansas),and shipped it to Ted Dames, Space Electronics, Columbia and etc
> operations where 'most' of it got rebuilt and went overseas, predominately
> Israel.
>
> A lot of HP test equipment along with ARC-58, 27 and other sophisticated
> airborne comm gear etc, fire control radar equipment and bunches of AN/GRC
> and PRC army gear.  Was a good money making business then.
>
> Rod
> KØEQH
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> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] 1980's Navy R-390A's
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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
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