[R-390] Shipping Receivers Across the Pond

[Francesco Ledda]

We shipped few Collins URC-93s (120lbs/each) from Italy to Virginia and
Texas for about $500 each, if I remember correctly.

The freight company (Bartolini) shipped by air to their North East hub, and
then by truck (Fedex) to the final destination. 

http://www.brt.it/en/index.do

The units were well packed and received no damage.

My experience is that all the shipping carriers are the same; the radio will
survive the shipping, if correctly packed.  A R390 in a single layer cartoon
box immersed in packing peanuts means a destroyed radio, no matter which
carrier is used.

I work for a large company, and we have many engineers that design packaging
solutions.  A properly design package will survive a 5 ft corner drop. We
test them for that.......  

Francesco
KF5RXV

-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of nryan at mchsi.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:49 PM
To: KA1KAQ Todd
Cc: R-390-List
Subject: Re: [R-390] Shipping Receivers Across the Pond

Hi, Boomer and list,

Anyone of you have experience with DHL?  I myself do not, but am just
throwing this in for discussion.

73 de Norman, KG4SWM

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or
doing it better. -- John Updike


----- Original Message -----
From: KA1KAQ Todd <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: R-390-List <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:47:28 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [R-390] Shipping Receivers Across the Pond

I'd like to tap into the vast experience of some of the members here who
have shipped R-390As and other sets to our cousins across the Atlantic.
It's been many years since I shipped anything bigger than tubes, and the
choices have changed considerably.

At this point I am halfway through a trade with a listmember here. Last year
he shipped me a beautiful Murphy B40D receiver with accessories, in a nice
fiberglass container approximately 34" square with small casters. I have
here for him the R-390's predecessor, a very nice R-388 receiver, matching
speaker and a few other bits like connectors. The desire is to use the same
container to ship it all back. How to pack it is not the issue.
How to ship it is. I keep hitting dead ends which means I'm not doing
something right.

It appears that I can send the receiver double boxed for somewhere in the
$200-$300 range, but adding in the container really skews things due to the
overall size plus weight formula. Fully packed the container will only be
somewhere around 75-80 lbs I'd guess. Certainly not more than 100 and likely
much less.

Since everything goes by air freight now, FedWrex wants somewhere are $1200
last time I checked and UPS isn't much better. It seems like this mini
container should go for under $500.

I've got a major airport nearby with several carriers and a Customs office.
Being an individual and not a business makes it far more than just a maze -
it makes it downright difficult to figure out.

Anyone here have recent experience with overseas air freight?  Since the
baby arrived in November I've been 'distracted' a bit for lack of a better
word but I'd like to get Pete's radio to him before it turns to dust. And I
know he'd love to have it!

TNX  -

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ/4

BTW, this is a deal a long time in the making. We originally started back in
the 90s after a discussion on this list about the B40 and SP-600 receivers.
But that's another story....
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