[R-390] R-390A tag with A on it - field mod?

Todd Bigelow - PS [email protected]
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:32:45 -0500


[email protected] wrote:

>Good day all:
>
>I posted this last week, but no response, so thought I would try it again. Tom Marcotte beleives the tag is original. It has an upper case A after the #. The A is slightly higher than the original #, so it does look like it was added. Tom thought it might be to denote a field mod. Any thoughts from the group?
>
Randy -

All of the responses about depot mods seem to make sense, but I have a 
hunch this was an early attempt by those who knew to prevent the silly 
"non-A" issue coming up in the future.

Grunt: "Hey Sarge....don't you think we'd better stamp one more A on 
this thing just to be safe? You just know that later on someone is gonna 
come along and wanna start renaming these radios. How about fluorescent 
orange??"

Sarge: "Fluorescent orange?? Nah, just stamp it in. Make it a little 
bigger, that should be enough. They'll figure it out. No one is 
*that*......see, this is why I'm a sergeant and yer a grunt!"

It was an early pre-emptive strike...

Boomer  KA1KAQ