[R-390] RE: GB> Legal China topic

[rbethman]

The USS Pueblo is now a Museum with ALL radios in place.

They are proud to show it off to whomever "MAY" visit.

They got to do what they wanted with R-390s, R-390As, and the like when 
Iran fell after the Sha.  We had ?some? listening posts there.

Bob N0DGN

Steve Hobensack wrote:
> The USS Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans during the Winter of 67-68. It was full of R-390s and some KW-37 crypto gear, all captured by the communists. There was no time to destruct. I have read that the units were well scrutinized by the Soviets and Chinese as well. In the case below, there would be no point in reverse engineering as you said.
>
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> ..73..Steve..N8YE   (ex ditty chaser)
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>> From: n4xy at earthlink.net
>> To: kargo_cult at msn.com; glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu
>> Subject: RE: GB> Legal China topic
>> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:04:09 -0500
>>
>> As a related point: about 3 years ago I traded a guy in Mainland China an
>> R-390 (non-A) I had not been all that thrilled with for the
>> description-vs-condition (it was OK, it just was 20-40% less than I had
>> expected. Worked fine, but was quite worn- for example: even the main drive
>> worm gear was nearly worn down.) I was scrupulously honest about the
>> condition however.
>>
>> I don't think he minded. He must have had a back door to a Chinese Army
>> warehouse, or had gotten an incredible deal on their surplus market. He
>> wanted multiple units, and was offering new tube-type and new solid-state HF
>> receivers in trade. Maybe they were really planning on reverse-engineering
>> them, but I doubt it. The solid-state receiver I receiver I received was a
>> bit odd, but good enough that rev.eng. an R-390 was hardly necessary.
>>     
> (snip)
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