[R-390] R-390 Digest, Vol 105, Issue 27

Thu Jan 31 12:31:27 EST 2013

Contact Burlington Air. I know of several folks that use them. Younmay want to network and use a company that ships similar items to "piggyback" on their shipper discount deal. I do this at our factory and reimburse them for the charges.
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>   1. Re: Shipping Receivers Across the Pond (Francesco Ledda)
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>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:16:22 -0600
>From: "Francesco Ledda" <frledda at att.net>
>To: <nryan at mchsi.com>,	"'KA1KAQ Todd'" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
>Cc: 'R-390-List' <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [R-390] Shipping Receivers Across the Pond
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>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. 
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>http://www.brt.it/en/index.do
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>The units were well packed and received no damage.
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>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.
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>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.......  
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>Francesco
>KF5RXV
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>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
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>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
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>----- 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
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>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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