[R-390] Proud owner

[Forrest Myers]

Thanks for all the responses to my note to the list.

As far as the work bench goes, I really do believe it is a solid state
workbench and will have to be upgraded to something more basic and
substantial.

Yup, I got it from the Don Reaves in Little Rock. It seems like a very nice
radio and is in decent shape considering how old it is.

Don't know who built it, contract number or anything like that. There is no
name plate on it. Don speculated who the manufacturer might have been but,
with information overload on my part, I forgot who it was. It wasn't Collins
though.

Don has pictures of the radio on his web site. It is the one numbered 557.
http://militaryradio.com/FS2003/ .

The ballast tube is still there. The power supply has a mod that removed two
tubes.

It will take me a while to figure out the mods and, perhaps, who built it.

I used R390's ,both A and non A, as well as R391's while in the US Army back
in the early 60's. It's been a while. It will take me some time to get back
up to speed.

More information and lots of questions as I go along.

Cheers and 73

Forrest Myers
AG4ND