[R-390] Shipping R-390's

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon at moscow.com
Mon Jun 7 00:48:25 EDT 2004


> Comment on using boxes with "hand-holes".  I recently received an R-388 that was
> shipped in a box with 'hand-holes', apparently since it was a heavy box, someone
> thought the handhole was a convenient location to pick it up with a forklift, of
> course it ruined the front of the R-388. Bob Schaefer K6OSM Mccall, Idaho

That is why I build the crates a little bigger, put a "plate" about 3 " down 
from the top to hold the receiver in, and put the hand-holds ABOVE that 
plate so that if some idiot uses a fork lift there he can't hit anything.

Ken W7EKB
Moscow, Idaho


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