[R-390] Pricing Question - First R-390A

[Michael Murphy]

I got sucked into the R390 fun in 1988 at the Deerfield Hamfest. I was not
really interested or knowledgable about the radio at all except for
reputation. I paid way too much, $75 for a Stewart Warner R390A as an end of
the day deal. Then they started showing up bang bang, I got a Motorola R390
(non A) for $75 that needed a lot of work along with some parts and in 1992
got two nice EAC's and CV-591 and a  complete TCS setup and an ARC-2A from
an estate sale for $150 take all.  I sold the Motorola for $125 and the EACs
for $125 each just to get them out of the shack. I kept only the old Stewart
Warner, the TMC and the TCS. I also sold an ARC-2A for $100 in 1993.

Them days is over folks.
Mike WU2D

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Subject: Re: [R-390] Pricing Question - First R-390A


> I still have some of the ads from my first search for a R-390A.  My  first
> introduction was an ad by Herbert W Gordon in CQ in 1967.  He was
offering
> "remanufactured" R-390s for only $1985!  Figure what that is in  today's
dollars.
> A column in CQ magazine in 1971 introduced me to the details of  the
radios,
> and by then the offering price by R.E Goodheart was only $995.   I bought
one
> the next year from Ted Dames in NJ for a mere $595, with a CY979  for
another
> $100.  It's an Amelco.  I've yet to break even on what I  paid, but its
been a
> great relationship.  It's still all original, except  for the power
> microswitch, a couple of tubes, and the PTO.
> Ed
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