[R-390] I was unaware they made this cover(pics)!

[eldim at att.net]

Did you know that there are these little opague rubber boots that slip over the #328 Dial lamps to produce a desired color hue?  I've seen them in Red, Green and Yellow.  I've also seen lams that are painted red.  Or you can get some red fingernail polish and paint your lamps.

73,
Glen Galati,  KA7BOJ
Tacoma, WA
eldim at att.net

-------------- Original message from Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com: -------------- 


> Glen, 
> 
> No need to guess. You are right. 
> These could be "black out" covers. The R-390A does not have a dial light 
> dimmer. When the radio is used in a shelter, at night, there would be a 
> requirement for a black-out door or turning off/covering up all light 
> producers for someone to enter or leave the shelter. Glenn WB4UIV 
> 
> Our field stuff in Nam had them in 69. We hated the things because 
> they do not stay up and you have to hold the cover up when you went to dial 
> onto a 
> frequency. The Vans in Korea on the DMZ had them in 70 - 71. Those were 
> relegated to the motor pool and were just a maintenance problem to keep the 
> stuff "hot in the depot" [parked, but not yet junked] operating. 
> 
> We had a couple on some receivers in the field station at Torri Station 
> Okinawa. 
> Those receivers were monitoring some propagation beacons on some fixed 
> frequencies. You could walk by the chart recorder, see where the needle on the 
> recorder was as you went to work and knew if you were going to hear any thing. 
> It was easy to just keep the dial covered. 90% of the station ops and 
> maintenance 
> folks did not even know there was a special project running over in the 
> corner. 
> We were just collecting data. 
> 
> Mostly they were like the micro dials on the BFO. Sort of official after 
> market 
> bolt on accessories. They had / have a NSN and you could order them like other 
> parts. If you were doing serious operations and needed to spin the knobs as 
> part 
> of the job, you hated the things. If you have one receiver on display skip 
> it. If you get to have more than one receiver on display, buy all means add one 
> to the shack 
> for looks. If the paint is falling off your dial counter, you may want to run 
> a cover 
> over it. 
> 
> Did you know you could also order red lights for the dial lights? 
> These were allowed in the Vans for field work. 
> 
> Roger KC6TRU 
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