[R-390] Lots of R390's

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Well this is all very much third hand information so it may be (and 
probably is) a whole bunch of BS. The story goes that there where a 
significant number of radios (as in thousands) that never went through 
any kind of de-mil process. We simply left them in place. Last time 
they were seen they were in a warehouse or com hut or what ever in 
perfectly fine shape. Forty years later they are not going to still be 
in perfectly good shape, but they would still exist.

We are seeing stuff come out of China that obviously went over there 
before 1948. It's coming out now simply because trade relations are 
opening up.

If the stories are not BS then we eventually should see some 390 stuff 
show up from over there as well as things loosen up.

So the question is, how real are the stories?

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ



On Jul 10, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Tom Norris wrote:

> Probably like a lot of things that "came back" from
> SE Asia, they were demilled by tossing into the ocean.
> I suppose if you were good diver, or knew any divers,
> you could probably come up with as many as you could
> haul away, as well as jeeps, helicopters, etc.
>
> T
>
>
>>
>> Here's a question for the group - Based on popular legends we left a 
>> *ton* of R390's in south east asia.
>>
>> With contacts to that part of the world opening up, has *anybody* 
>> seen any signs of those radios showing up on the market? The storage 
>> conditions probably are not the best, but we certainly store them out 
>> in the rain for years over here. There certainly are a lot of other 
>> interesting radios showing up from dealers in China,  but I have not 
>> seen any R390's.
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