[R-390] Special Purpose R-390

[Bob Camp]

Hi

It would not be at all surprising to see “Clark Instruments” continuing to use it’s name on a small amount of product well after the merger. It’s one way to retain legal rights to the name. One would *guess* that some portion of the US Gov was the end customer….

Bob

On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:56 PM, joldenburg2 at new.rr.com wrote:

> 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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