[R-390] security classification

[Lester Veenstra]

Nice to see someone who remembers Herb (IBY) the favorite of 73 and the
scourge of QST.

I worked for Herb, among other things, fixing r-388s and R-390xs.  Then I
joined the Navy, designated a CTM and sent to A school where the majority of
the course was to learn R-390s. For some reason they decided it would be a
waste of time for me to take the classes. Instead they gave me the course
material and I sat in a room taking the tests.  Got out of Great Lakes
(K9NBH) in a lot less than the two years the navy said it would take to get
educated!

BTW, R-390s were never a classified hardware or in the form of manuals.


Lester B Veenstra  MØYCM K1YCM
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of JBurgwynjr at aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 10:24 PM
To: r-390 at qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] security classification

As a member of the ASA team in the Taiwan facility, I thought the mission
was security as well as the equipment but then I guess they both were  not
discussed off base nor were the radios taken off base to my  knowledge. That
was back in the early 60's. We used 390, 390A,  388, SP-600,  etc. Anyone
could have seen that huge antenna  farm which would be a tipoff to radio
devices being used. Back at Ft Devens,  Mass they were all over the place.
Can't remember the old man that lived on top  of the hill in Ayer or
Harvard, Mass. Went to see him one time for a tube  for my ham rig at home
off base. 
Never have seen such a home ham/military store.  Think his name was Herb
Gordon. 
What a home and he must have had 4 or 5 of  whatever radio and part you
wanted. But I don't think he was much of a seller. I  got to see him because
I rented an apartment from the US Postmistress who knew  him. He had a huge
home on a hill overlooking the beautiful country  side and his operating 
position looked out toward the East from his third  story op room.   I did
some 
operating for the MARS Station at Devens  AA1KBO when I was reassigned to
Devens from Taipei. We used a BC610 with a  couple of R-390 .  We were not
net control, I think a fellow named Jack ?  was a civilian net controller
and may have lived in New York. All of that was a  long time ago....Year or
so ago I was going to a hamfest in New England and  decided to go by Ayer to
see Ft Devens and it was gone !!!  Kinda sad I  had grown to like it all but
the cold winters. And listening to the carry  over on some of the cheap
barrack radios from the code of BED from the Bedford,  Mass beacon at their
airport. 
It took me a while to catch on that the Army  wasn't trying to lull me to 
sleep in the bunk. John Burgwyn   W4WAW    
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