[R-390] eBay NOS R-390A

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

Gary,

My Long Beach receiver is inscribed on each sub assembly to keep parts from 
being swapped into the general mix. I was told it was from the MARS station 
at long beach.
 I am sure it has history of its own.

But there were the ones in Phu Bia, on the DMZ in Korea, My R390's with 24 
volt power supplies in a van. The one's in Okinawa were wonderful. My buddy 
Klick tells me about R390's in Africa. I feel sorry for about 12 that were 
weekly disassembled by students in Hale Hall at Ft. Devens.

I knew of other in Shimma Alaska, Germany and Berlin and Turkey.

And you are right the Navy had lots of them. The Marines had a bunch more. 
I know of other locations that had them.

They were the back bone of long haul signal corps receivers for years. 
These got paired with transmitters and every military installation of any size 
had a phone line from a TTY to a receiver some place that carried the daily 
logistics of the military. I have no idea how many of these receivers there 
were / are. History, any one of these receivers has history if it did no more 
than ordered your chow and brought you your orders to go home.</HTML>