[R-390] R390A not working at all

[Mark Huss]

Oh, and be glad you didn't' get to work on an MLQ-24. For the 
uninitiated, an MLQ-24 is a "Mobile Non-Communications Intercept System 
". Take three Radar Intercept systems, dating 1944 (Army Air Corp), 
1948(U.S.Air Force), and 1956 (U.S. Navy), all designed to be mounted in 
Aircraft. Shove it all into the back of a Pick-Up Truck. Figure out how 
to wire them together so that they at least can live together, if not 
exactly cooperate. Take two radomes designed to be blister-mounted to 
the Fuselage of a B-29, and stick them on top of two crank-up towers 
bolted to the side of the Pick-up Truck. Add plastic Palm fronds stolen 
from the lobby of the R&R hotel in Wie-jong-bu to the Radomes for 
camouflage, since you can't put them under the Camouflage nets, and 2nd 
Lt. "Crash" 'Totaled Three Jeeps Five Times in Six Months" Rothmann 
insists they be camouflaged. Then power the whole thing from a 
motor-Generator off of a WWII SCR Radar, complete with Spark-gap "Bang" 
Generator, bolted to the Generator Trailer. Finally, park the whole 
she-bang on top of the tallest treeless mountain you can find with a 
direct line-of-sight to the Enemy, and hope he doesn't decide to blow 
away the two Magic Palm Trees that suddenly appeared in 40 below snow 
where no other palm trees have ever appeared before.
By the way, that was one of "Crash's" better ideas. Don't make me tell 
you about the time we got iced in on top of a mountain on the DMZ. And 
his idea for clearing the dirt track down was to have us pour every drop 
of gas and diesel we had on it and setting the mountain on fire.
Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Love your story.
>
> I sure hope you enjoyed Korea as much as I did.
>
> I only saw one MLQ-24 in Korea and I did not get to work on it.
>
> Strange to discover all these relations after all the R390 stuff we have 
> swapped here on the reflector.
>
> Roger L. Ruszkowski
>
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