[R-390] Special Purpose R-390

[joldenburg2 at new.rr.com]

possibly a radio modded by NEMS-Clark?

"NEMS-Clarke, aka Vitro Corporation, built monitoring and test equipment for RCA - and marketed the product on their own as well. 

The original companies NEMS - National Electric Machine Shop (founded 1899 as National Electrical Supply Co) - and Clarke Instruments (founded 1940), merged in 1951 as NEMS-Clarke. NEMS was manufacturing radio parts, and Clarke designed telemetry and special purpose receivers, largely for the Defense Department."

I own a number of Nems-Clark receivers. They are mostly VHF rigs with outputs for video monitors, panadapters and recorders. It would be interesting to see the rear panel of the rig to see if any such amenities had been added.

Jon AB9AH

---- Charles Steinmetz <csteinmetz at yandex.com> wrote: 

So, I'm more inclined to think that "Clark Instruments" was some guy 
in his basement who modified at least one radio and had at least one 
nice-ish label plate made.  The fact that there seems to be no 
information about "Clark Instruments" on the web supports this 
hypothesis.  So, until we get word otherwise....

Best regards,

Charles



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