[R-390] Mil experience

[William A Kulze]

Greetings to all...

I'm finaly getting caught up on the postings. I have the week between
Christmas and New Years off, and since I have painfully slow dialup at
home I do most of my online stuff on lunch break at work. I've enjoyed the
stories from Duane and everyone else on their early experience with 390's.
I was schooled as a ground radio tech in the Air Force and the R-390 was
used to teach Rx principles. I was wondering if there is anyone out there
who was at Keesler AFB in those classes in the spring of 1977?

I remember telling my dad, who was a ham, about the radio and he was
familiar with it and seemed a little impressed. My only regret is that I
did ok in school and was sent to a shop at Hickam that didn't have a
school, so I never saw another until about 1990. SCOPE Control tech?
Secure and non-secure voice and data VIP comm. They had two 6ft racks of
gear from 1964 that did AD/DA coversion which was then sent through
crypto. I don't know why they bothered with crypto cause you could hardly
understand the end result antway. Sounded like donald duck. To think that
today you flip open a litle phone and do the same thing, crytal clear!

Anyway, wondering if there's anyone who was ther while I was. Thanks to
all for keeping the knowledge and skill alive.

Bill