[R-390] R-390 History

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I suspect that at least with the 390 and 390A the question will come up 
"what's my radio?". With the ones I have here it's the odd one that 
actually has the numbers on the front and rear panels matching.

That said if you want to go for it the archives must have all the darn 
paperwork that transfered the radios from point to point. The same 
archives probably have the normal unit inventory documentation as well. 
In both cases the information you are after is going to be buried in 
with a whole bunch of other stuff. You should be able to get access to 
it but boy will it take time.

More or less:

Radio has serial number, so we know when it was made. There must be a 
record of it going from the factory to a depot.

Depot records should exist and show who it was sent out to.

Unit inventory should confirm that they had the radio.

Since the unit no longer has the radio there must be paper that moved 
it out of that unit.

If you can find 20% of those records you are doing *very* well.

The national archives have a web site so you can at least look into 
what's involved in researching those records.

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On Jul 5, 2004, at 11:45 PM, Dave Faria wrote:

> This may be a futile exercise but, I would like to trace the history 
> of my 390a, 390, 391, 392, and 388.  If its possible back to the duty 
> stations.  Anyone know how to do this??
>
> It would be an interesting exercise.  Yep I'm retired - sorta
>
> Thanks for your thoughts before hand
> Dave Faria/WA5TEZ
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