[r-390] hi

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

Bill Hawkins wrote:

>Haven't seen the real reason for "non-A" come out yet.
>
>It's a crowd thing. Billions of R-390/A sets were made, and now
>circulate with high demand. Almost no R-390 sets were made and
>only a few people know about them. So we have the R-390/A owners
>saying that they have R-390 sets, dropping the /A the way Brits
>drop the 'h'. When they do make a disparaging remark about non-A,
>what they really mean is 'not of our kind of people', not fit to
>consume Earth's limitless resources, stuff like that.
>
I think it's more along the lines of  'what are you talking about?' 
since none of the manuals, lierature, nomenclature, etc makes mention of 
something called a 'non-A'. It's confusing to those who know what the 
two radios are, just not in the same way it's confusing to those who 
don't. Probably a curiosity at seeing someone make up a new name for 
something that already has a clear one assigned.

Technically they are both R-390s, which is why this list is called the 
R-390 list. The R-390 came first, the cost-reduced 'A' came second. If 
anything, it would make more sense to call the 'A' the non-R-390 since 
it came later, if it didn't sound so foolish. (o:

 There was a fellow at Hosstraders (probably a list member, so we'll 
keep his identity secret) who, when someone referred to a 'non-A' 
squinted his eyes and said "is that a Japanese radio?". Was rather 
funny, considering the 'non-A' guy was some kind of 'expert' having 
gotten one in the last year or two when this guy had only been one of 
the fellows who serviced and used them in the military for years.

>Who was it that had the signature line, "You are not of our tribe.
>We must kill you."?
>  
>
That'd be Nolan.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ