[R-390] Blackface 390A on the e-place - BEWARE

[res7y1u6 at verizon.net]

i knew i had seen this somewhere...........

     it seems n0jr jan in iowa posted a want ad for a "mint black face r-390a" on the boatanchor classifieds on 02/26/05. 

     chee, it must not have been all that and a bag of chips. selling it almost a month to the day later. 

     73 mike ku4yp 



>From: federico <federico at dottorbaldi.it>
>Date: Sat Mar 26 17:14:51 CST 2005
>To: John KA1XC <tetrode at comcast.net>, R-390 reflector <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [R-390] Blackface 390A on the e-place - BEWARE

>Hi to all friends,
>                  in my personal opinion the black face R-390A/URR is 
>advertised in a manner not completely clear : the seller says that it is in 
>CIA black colour not really a CIA radio. But I want to say some things and 
>in the same time ask your opinions :
>
>1
>usually here in Europe (and mainly in the States) you see R-390 series 
>receivers in battleship grey, usually the light gray or black front panel 
>were re-painted to meet the request of the owner so they are "not original" 
>and they worth less than an original one (in my personal opinion)
>
>2
>I think that all the R-390 series receiver were battleship gray, do you know 
>of some ORIGINAL in other colours? I not
>
>3
>I bought a R-390/URR and a R-389/URR from Rick Mish of MILTRONIX he leave, 
>at my request, the front panel of the R-389/URR not repainted (it was really 
>good) and he re-painted the front panel of the R-390/URR in the original 
>colour; in that time I have had some correspondance with Rick (really a very 
>good person) and he said me that from time to time he made some light gray 
>with black lettering front panels to meet the new style of Navy receiver but 
>he didn't said that this was ever done from the Navy
>
>in other words in my personal opinion : if the front panel is in bad 
>condition we can repaint but in the original colour battleship gray other 
>colours give me some gastric troubles!
>
>I hope that my english isn't too bad and that my e-mail not too wasting time 
>for you my friends.
>
>73 de Federico IZ1FID
>
>
>Visit my webspace voted to military surplus radio and aircraft clocks :
>
>www.dottorbaldi.it/militaryradio
>
>See also :
>
>http://www.geocities.com/pa0jta2/hamshacks.html
>
>http://www.combatradio.org.uk/customers.htm
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