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

[J. Forster]

A public auction is the last stop at DRMO. Only stuff that nobody in
government, schools, communities, etc. did not want was sold to the
public.

-John

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> There were several pallets of R-390s stored outdoors for months here at
> Kelly Field DRMO.  As far as any of us regulars ever saw, they never came
> up for either sealed bid or auction.  I'm a little hazy on the time frame
> anymore, but I *think* this was in the early '90s, maybe even as far back
> as the late '80s.
>
> 73,
> George
> W5VPQ
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Jim Conrad <jjc at oceanviewcom.com>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] 1980's Navy R-390A's
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:38:20 -0500
>
> I was one of the people that bid on the R-390 lot that was stockpiled
> outside on pallets at St J's DRMO facility in the mid to late 90's.
> They had been stored outside for a number of months. They were in
> fair condition (less the radium meters) when staged but as the months
> went by of course the elements took their toll.
>
> I was bidding for another company and given the time since the
> auction I don't even remember if I won the bid or not because if I
> had the company I was bidding for would have arranged for the
> shipment. This was in the day when the auctions were the real deal
> held at the Norfolk DRMO facility in person using paddles with
> numbers like you see occasionally on TV. As I recall there was over a
> hundred of them and the lot went for many thousands of dollars.
>
> That was one of the last large quantity surplus sales of vintage
> communications equipment. Shortly after that time DRMO changed policy
> on DEMIL and started to drop a twenty ton anchor on most of the
> interesting communications equipment.
>
> I have been involved in buying and selling of government surplus
> since around 1990 when I got out of the Navy. Most of the good stuff
> no longer makes it to surplus because of the ever more strict DEMIL
> codes. It was easier to get the "good" stuff during the Cold War then now.
>
>
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