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

[Bob Camp]

Hi

If they wanted to take a look at R-390's or R-390A's they had a lot of  
chances. We had a *ton* of them in Viet Nam. They certainly all did  
not come home.  For that matter, you could buy a commercial version of  
the 390A in the 1960's.

If they were lazy / cheap, I'm sure that a hamfest acquisition was  
possible at any point past the mid 1960's. I only started going at  
that point, so it may have been possible before that.

Given how widely the radios were distributed, I would bet a well used  
set of electrolytics that the schematics made it to the "other side"  
by the mid 1950's.

Bob



On Jan 27, 2008, at 6:53 PM, rbethman wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> ..73..Steve..N8YE   (ex ditty chaser)
>>
>>
>>> 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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