[R-390] Non A questions for the experts

John Lawson jpl15 at panix.com
Sun Jul 24 22:24:39 EDT 2005


   I have paid for, and will pick up, the R-390 I bought, in a couple of 
weeks.  A freind and I have been looking at the pictures on the auction 
page, but they were assembled as a collage of several images of the radio, 
and thus the individual ones are too small to carry enough resolution to 
tell fine details.

   Like the manufaturer, f'rinstance.

   I've brought the photo into PaintShop Pro (which I'm fairly 'good' with) 
but there are just not enough pixels to completely read the data plate. 
It *looks* like the manufacturer is Westinghouse, Inc....   but my friend 
has a book of 390 lore and lineage, and he informs me that only Collins 
and Motorola made Non As.  Maybe the plate has been replaced? It *does* 
say "R-390/URR" and this rig was for the Navy.

   Also, on the back panel, are two of those round, small/few-pinned blue 
connectors with a threaded boss in the middle, like a lot of the PRC and 
GRC radio sets used for interconnecting cables....  again I can't read the 
nomenclature above and below them - not having ever owned a "Non A" before 
I thought I'd ask their purposes..


   No tools left, but the 7 and 9-pin straighteners are there.

   Now I can get my R-388 out to Howard Mills for refurb and still have two 
HF Boatanchor recievers in the shack.

   Cheers

John  KB6SCO

  PS: I'll be at the Livermore, CA Ham swap on Sunday, Aug 7th - 7:00 - 
11:30....  one of the better swaps left alive - I't be Fun to have an 
Eyball QSO with any Listmembers who might be in the area...




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