[R-390] re: R-390A is no more available at Fair Radio

[W. Li]

I did not miss out on the good ol' days; back then I
had a little cash from mowing lawns and newspaper
delivery... went downtown to San Francisco's Market
Street in the 50's where there were three surplus
shops full of stuff to the ceiling! They had triple
ARC-5 rec'r racks for a buck, and lots of ARC-5 cables
and tuning boxes.... picked up a new-in-box BC-453
Q-5'er for $15 and unfortunately did a hatchet job on
it (I was 15). I still have it somewhere....... Of
course there were no 390's on view... knowledge of
their existence was strictly on a need to know
basis... 

Across the Bay just outside the Oakland Municipal
Airport there were two Quonset huts with lots of
component parts and more ARC-5's! 

Two ham friends and I made the grand tour every
Saturday for four years.... picking up small stuff
each time (in a "hot" 48 Nash). All three of us got
turned down for the Navy (hoping to become ET's) when
we graduated in '57: two ended up in aerospace later
on. Times do change, and I got in the USMC in '67
though... must have lowered the standards somewhere
along the line.

W. Li
Mercer Island, WA



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