[R-390] R-390A/R-1247 Data Plates follow up

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

Brian,

These things come up as property book issues. Property books being the 
military's way to keep track or all the stuff on any given base. Lots of 
officers on any give base have a property book that is an inventory of stuff. They 
are each responsible for the stuff on their list. Every quarter the officer 
grabs a couple senior NCO's and they take a walk. Each item on the oficers 
property book is located. If some thing is not found, everyone gets upset. 
Not found things cause paper work. And we all know how much management hates 
unexpected paper work.

Someone "owned" the original R390/A. Just because it was modified did not 
relieve the owner of his property. The military just does not deal well with 
change. So it has two tags. One is the original tag. This tracked the R390 
from its procurement by the military to its scrap surplus sale from the 
military. The second tag was "an authorization" to "modify" the receiver from its 
original form to its new form on a one of change. Several, many were 
changed. But not all receivers were changed. So the second tag was the military's 
way of tracking the small number of receivers that were modified for special 
uses. Hope this helps. Keep both the tags on your receiver. It is part of 
its history and is thus special. @@@RARE@@@.

Roger Ruszkowski