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

[Harold Hairston]

Could the seller have been "Price Shopping" at that time????

Harold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "res7y1u6 at verizon.net" <ku4yp at verizon.net>
To: "federico" <federico at dottorbaldi.it>; "John KA1XC" 
<tetrode at comcast.net>; "R-390 reflector" <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [R-390] Blackface 390A on the e-place - BEWARE


>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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