[r-390] hi

[jlap1939@yahoo.com]

Well,

Don't remember if I started this mess or not...But..it
was tongue in cheek anyway...now you guys got B Hauser
and Hank going...and he's askin' for Foley...

I really accept the "non a" desg. but as pointed out
by Jim..Those who used them or were around them in
mil. appl. and in ham use didn't worry too much what
you called them..and most said "390" when they meant 
either. If they spoke of the "a",you might say 390a,
but usually not spoken of as 390a ...., ,, It just
wasn't done, so 390 meant "one of the units in the
3XXxx series of  rec." If you were asking in
servicing, THEN, you would say 390 "a". 

If you maybe made a call to maint. for repair....:

"We got a broke radio!....".."which one"..."the 390"..
"well send it over, but its' gonna be a
week..."....(yeah, right...) later, the service depo
or other agency:...(to someone else, maybe another
Company or Bat....) : "Ya got a power sup. for a 390
AYE, you can
transfer on inven."?

I was around more "nons" myself, and still believe it
serves (maybe best), for every application EXCEPT
extremely "tight" areas where interference required
(and found), more accuracy in the mech. filters of the
390a. But, I was NCOIC for training probs...I never
was a comm. tech...I was a tanker..

One thing I saw, and have mentioned before, was a lot
of real mis-treatment, even dropping out the back of a
deuce 1/2 ...These radios kept on working..(All in
this series,).. (we all know that...sorry)

Each to his own..but I always was partial to the "non
a"..

MY Regards,  John (JLAP)

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