[R-390] USPS info (What a screw up and a rip off !!!)

[Les Locklear]

Z-501 is a well known high failure rate component. It would have gone south if it were hand delivered imho.

Les
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ANTHONY CASORSO 
  To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [R-390] USPS info (What a screw up and a rip off !!!)



  Well, may as well join in. I bought my R-390a from eBay. The guy was a carpet dealer in New York. I paid ... well a bunch for this radio which I had been dreaming of owning for a number of years. The radio was shipped UPS is an old color television box that was (maybe) 6 inches bigger that the radio. The padding was some old chair cushions and ragged pieces of old foam rubber. I wasn't home when it arrived at my home near Denver, Colorado but my wife saw the UPS guy shove it out the back of the UPS truck onto the pavement and then load it onto the two-wheeler for the trip up the driveway. When I got home and heard the story I was mortified and went to open the box (which showed quite a bit of rough handling). The radio was fine. Just needed a new AGC transformer (Z-501 on the IF deck if I remember correctly).
  I guess I got lucky too.
  Tony      
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