[R-390] Cleaning out R-390, R-390A and R-392 parts

Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:26:45 -0600

Leaving the flock, eh?

The R-390 gods are fair, but vengeful.  Don't be too surprised if
your R-390A T-Shirt spontaneously combusts one day...

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:21:24 -0600
>From: "Terry O'Laughlin" <[email protected]>  
>Subject: [R-390] Cleaning out R-390, R-390A and R-392 parts  
>To: [email protected]
>
>I haven't rebuilt a boatanchor in probably five years, so I'm clearing out 
>all my R-390, R-392 and R-390A parts.  In the interest of fair access (as 
>opposed to obsessive e-mail checkers getting the goods), I put them all on 
>eBay with $1.00 minimum bids.  It's gears and couplers and greasy stuff and 
>much of it has no bidders.
>
>One part I found later is what I think is the oven for an R-392.  It says 
>Bliley has a 200 kc crystal.  First $3.00 plus $3.20 for priority mail can 
>have it.
>
>It's been fun but I'll be moving off this list.  After owning, repairing 
>and rebuilding a couple dozen R-390 and R-390As, one R-391, seven R-392s 
>and a pair of R-389s (not to mention the CV-591s, CV-157s, antennas 
>couplers...) they'll be no more 80+ pound blocks of low noise floors and 
>wasted filament energy in my house.
>
>73
>Terry O'
>WB9GVB 
>
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