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

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:38 PM, barry williams <ba.williams at charter.net>wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Boy, I hope it wasn't me! The last things I fished out of a commercial
dumpster maybe 8 years back were several large slate electrical panels with
solid copper buss bars and knife switches. Might've posted about it on here
back around 2004? Dunno. Since moving south I've discovered numerous things
dropped off at the local recycling center from an early Motorola AM/FM set
that works fine to scanners and, most recently, a pile of Altec audio gear.
Missed some nice Bose speakers a few months back, though. I do keep my eyes
peeled whenever I go over for the odd gray or black box with knobs, but
they have a dump nazi who pitches a fit the days he's there. It's not like
I don't bring them enough trading material. (o:

Chances are it was Pat who lived south of me then in Brattleboro VT. He
used to call me with piles of radios for sale that he'd hauled home. Bought
his last two R-390As from him in 2000/2001 along with a BC-348 and SX-42,
all for $400. He stopped posting and vanished owning me the AF deck for one
of the As.

Howdy to you, Walter. It's been a while. Somewhere on one of the computer
drives I still have the nice photos you took of your gear train rebuild
eons ago. Very helpful to this day. What a difference a good cleaning
makes.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ/4