[R-390] Adler R-390A FS

[mikea]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 09:26:40PM -0400, Paul Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:01 PM, <odyslim at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> >  A friend of mine asked me to put a bird in every bodies ear. He is
> > going to put an Adler Electronics R-390A up on eBay. The radio has
> > all Adler modules not just the tag. Its the real McCoy.
> ...
> > I believe a little soap and water would bring out a pristine VERY rare Adler R-390A.
> >
> >  ONLY 5 MADE!  Get out your lunch money!
> 
> So what's the story behind these?  Another Naval ship order gone awry?  ;)

No; the wrong set of specs got stapled into an anchor contract. Fortunately
for all of us, the contract monitors got things stopped before too many got
made. Think of it as the inverted-Jenny-stamp of radio receivers, or a very 
light anchor for a naval ship. ;')

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