[R-390] Fowler Industries R-390A on eBay Now

[Mac McCullough]

FACT :  fowler's price was in excess of mid 30k ea.  as I recall
and tom didn't they  [ fowler ] have issues making them meet spec on 
sensitivity or such, whatever it was no home run for them, with such limited 
qty.


Located 46 miles due North of the Alamo, AND HOME of the 2007 NBA World 
Champions, and 121 miles due South of the Western White House.   see my 
website at  www.collinsandharrisradios.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Shoppa" <tshoppa at wmata.com>
To: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>; <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Fowler Industries R-390A on eBay Now


Cecil wrote:
> Might be watching the first $5000.00 R-390A......unless I missed another 
> one
> that has already won that honor.

I think the government price for the Fowlers new must have been in the $10K+
range. I have no proof of my conclusion, just my eyeballing the complexity
of the instrument (having rebuilt a couple and seen a couple NIB 
subassemblies
over the past couple decades) + cost of what tooling couldn't be recovered 
from past
runs + some very very minimal overhead. Lose some tooling and the gov't
price could have easily shot up to $20K, $30K, even more.

Tim.

_____________________________________________________________
R-390 mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/r-390
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm
Post: mailto:R-390 at mailman.qth.net
Unsubscribe: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/options/r-390


-- 
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.9/907 - Release Date: 7/18/2007 
3:30 PM