[R-390] eBay NOS R-390A

rbethman rbethman at comcast.net
Wed Apr 7 14:02:35 EDT 2010



On 4/7/2010 1:43 PM, glwebb at gundluth.org wrote:
>   In Panama 1968-1970. We had two to four Army ASA guys per  watch doing
> intercept for their own interests.
>    
And I lived in the tropical barracks right next door on Fort Amador.

The RLPs were sort of obvious.

I "may" be sacrilegious, but the '51 contract Collins that was a 
"Blue-Striper".  I'm completely stripping the front panel and 
refinishing it.

It was TOO nasty to leave the stripes there.

> We had a  R-390A   which  was monitoring the  NASA frequency  during the
> Apollo 11 mission. I had the good fortune to be on watch during the landing
> itself.
Bob - N0DGN


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