[R-390] Very Nice 390A, Hope You Are Sitting Down

[rbethman@comcast.net]

Looks are everything - NOT!

Ken - yours MAY look as good, BUT I DOUBT it is up to the standards of one
of these GOVERNMENT FINANCED complete REBUILDS.  Wonder how much the
government put into these, ESPECIALLY since it became a HOT time-line issue.
Impending/actual war, and state-of-the-art reduced to fried circuits.

Harris Corp STILL insists that it was "poor filter maintenance" that was at
fault.  They STILL refuse to acknowledge that the talcum powder like desert
sand created such static charges, that when blown across an antenna it fried
the IFs.

Same problem in Afghanistan!

    This looks to be one of the 500 that Uncle Sam COMPLETELY restored to
ORIGINAL condition for Desert Storm.

    I'd STILL like to be able to afford it!  It would be in THIS Shack PDQ!

    I'd also like a source for the C603 C606 caps that Uncle put in them
during the restoration.

    Eventually these wonders will hit the market.  Hopefully in a more
affordable range.

    Makes you wonder - Which warehouse, WHERE, are all of these resources
kept?

Bob - N0DGN


----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Crips"

Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 20:25 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Very Nice 390A, Hope You Are Sitting Down


| Museum quality indeed, My EAC R390A/URR looks nearly that good and it is
| unrestored, phooey and double phooey!!!
|
| Kenneth A. Crips W7ITC, Cheyenne, Wyoming
| Home of Chew Crew II, The Beezie the Beez-Bomb,
| Chic' MOB (mother of Beezie), and Cowboy Joe
| the Cheyenne Chewboy and the pard' of the yard.