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

[Les Locklear]

Two pallets of R-390A's back in the late 70's for the princely sum of $50.00 
at Keesler A.F.B. Total of 34 receivers, 33 R-390A's and one R-390 (non A 
for the learning disabled)

Yup, those days are waaaaaaay behind us.

Les Locklear
Gulfport, MS.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Murphy" <mjmurphy45 at comcast.net>
To: <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Pricing Question - First R-390A


>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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <DJED1 at aol.com>
> To: <misheb at execpc.com>; <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:47 AM
> 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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