[R-390] wrong part in RF deck found

[Don Reaves W5OR]

Hmmm,

That one sounds familiar, Tom.  Is there a Navy diode load mod on the
the front panel?  Red, yellow or white socket?  If that one came from me
I can help you trace its lineage a little.  It came from Omaha Nebraska.
I found it and two more in a tall rack, in Ladd's radio store, back in
the late eighties.  Mr. Ladd would only take cash for them so I had to
scramble around to several Omaha banks to cash enough checks to buy
them.  They came home in the back of a pickup with camper shell during a
blinding snowstorm from Omaha through Iowa and Missouri.  4WD and a rack
full of R390 ballast makes snow driving fun.

How they got to land locked Omaha is the mystery.  Perhaps they came
from Elkhorn or Navy Mars.  As I recal Mr. Ladd got them from a local
ham.

Don


> doesn't look like it saw much use or maintenance at all. 
> Other than a big Navy ID tag glued on the front, 
> along with an engraved tag that 
> says "RCVR 1" under
> the KC knob, the thing looked like it just came out of its crate.