[R-390] NOLAN LEE

Wed Sep 28 22:27:55 EDT 2005

Man, I still am a bit bummed about this news about Nolan, Rich. I really, 
really enjoyed his stories and technical comments on the 390s and had 
wondered out loud to the list several times in the past couple of years as 
to where he is. Others occasionally asked too. Thanks for tracking him down.

He and I both knew of a really neat, small surplus outfit up here in NY 
State, near Rochester. I bought my nice R-390A/URR from that fellow back 
around 18-20 years or so ago and I believe Nolan had gotten several items 
from him too. The surplus dealer told me he got the 390A from an auction of 
stuff at the NSA. That surplus place is long gone now. Sigh . . . :-(

Sun, LA where Nolan lives is just above where Katrina tore up everything. I 
hope Nolan's property was spared for sure.

He sure had a bit of fun making himself out to be a "dumb" redneck at times 
and apparently enjoyed it too. But, by God, he sure was not dumb at all 
especially when it is observable how articulate he was from his writing and 
the way he did detail work on his 390s, TV-series tube testers, and 
R-1051s. I never got out of him exactly what profession he was in, but drug 
enforcement was vaguely suggested once in a while on the list. We seemed to 
have lost a good man.

One thing that came to my mind the other day: Is he aware of his website 
still being up and are the hosting charges still being paid? There is one 
heck of a lot of important info on those pages which obviously took a LOT 
of work to develop and should not be lost. Should somebody at least mirror 
the complete site just in case it's forgotten or something and is at risk 
of being shut down and in fact potentially lost?

Peace, everyone.

-Chris F.

NNNN

At 12:48 PM 9/23/2005, Richard M. MC Clung wrote:
>I just got thru to Nolan and we have a problem...
>
>He made it OK thru the storm but it seems he had a stroke a couple of
>years ago and he doesn't remember most everything.
>
>He didn't remember me or the R-390 List and said "I'm going back to
>bed."
>
>RICH  WA6KNW
>
>
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Christian Fandt,    Electronic/Electrical Historian
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