[R-390] security classification

Thu Jun 10 20:51:36 EDT 2010

They are now, according to US Army document doctrine!  Well, the R-390A manuals have been reclassified as "D" on the LOGSA server... again.

We can't let things like that get in the hands of the enemy.  I'm sure there are rebel groups chomping at the bit to trade in their cell phones and sat radios for a convoy of GRC-26's!  Then there are the gangs, gotta keep this stuff away from them, else everyone in the 'hood will be humping around PRC-77's!

XD

Tom

On Jun 5, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Lester Veenstra wrote:

> 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-----
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> 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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