[R-390] $5000.00 390A????

[barry williams]

Don probably has the patience of Job! Glad you got to meet him. I 
haven't been to Dayton yet, but my 67 EAC came from there. We tried the 
'on subject only' route a few years back and the list was on life 
support. We lost a lot of members.

That talk about telescopes way back almost got me into it a few years 
back. A neighbor was selling off some things and his big, fat, huge 
Meade was up for less than 50% cost. I wish I had jumped on that deal 
when I had the chance. Yup, siege mortar is exactly what he had too.

I know what you mean about wives. My wife accepted the full blown shop 
in the den when we met and later married. I was married before and that 
wife accepted my first R-390A in the bedroom and on top of my night 
table for a few weeks. Ah, the bliss of newlyweds.

By the way, who was the list member way back who always came up with 
boat anchors when he went dumpster diving? He was always telling us 
about finding all kinds of stuff. I can't remember his name now. I 
almost hated him at times when he found something.


the other Barry


> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:45 AM, barry williams 
> <ba.williams at charter.net <mailto:ba.williams at charter.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     BTW Bob, you said that we don't talk about optics here but we do. We
>     were talking about telescopes before you joined the list. I think Todd
>     is the prime mover behind that subject.
>
>
> Wowsers, Barry - that was a LONG time ago! I seem to recall Nolan 
> adding a quip about "calibrating" his night vision scope using a cat 
> on a fencepost as a reference around that time.
>
> Don has always been very tolerant of allowing folks to wander a bit 
> off-topic through the years as the content is most always technically 
> interesting and either at least tangentially related to R-390s, 
> military service, or something many of us share as a gadget-related 
> common interest. We never spent a lot of time there, just the 
> occasional stroll. Got to shake Don's hand at Dayton in 2007, he's 
> indeed every bit the gentleman and all around good guy he seems here. 
> Not to mention his extensive knowledge of the R-389 and 
> other-things-radio.
>
> BTW, I still have my 450x Newtonian reflector aka the siege mortar, 
> boxed up since the move south. Was discussing it with the good wife a 
> couple nights back in reference to the Venus/Jupiter thing goin' on up 
> thar. She let me have the R-390/R-390A/SP-600 rack in the living room 
> for an extended period of time along with the Teledyne A and a big 
> Atlas boom mic stand, and a B40D is currently occupying part of her 
> kitchen counter, so the telescope shouldn't be an issue *fingers 
> crossed*. I miss it!
>
> de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ/4