[R-390] 5749 Tube purchase

[mikea]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:53:07PM -0400, 2002tii wrote:
> 
> >"but R-390's used to be worth no more than $50 or $100"
> 
> For some years from the mid '70s through the late '80s or early '90s, 
> there would be a pile of heavy metal left behind after every ham fest 
> because nobody wanted to pay $25 for 390s, SP-600s, etc.  I took a 
> few home, but saw hundreds of them tossed (not gently) into trucks 
> and hauled off for scrap.  And I don't go to that many ham 
> fests.  Those were the days....

September 1969, Osan AB, ROK: R-390s and R-390As from the MARS shack
being tossed into the dumpster, the day after I shipped my hold 
baggage back to North Camp Drake, Japan, and the day before I got on
the plane myself. The MARS guys told me I could have as many as I 
wanted. *sigh* I had to wait until 1999 to get an R-390.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin