[R-390] Depot Dawgs (dogs)

[Bill Cotter]

Les,

The Bluegrass Army Depot (Richmond, KY) has a vast amount of 
acreage where our nations chemical weapons are stockpiled and 
destroyed, and the deer are plentiful at the heavily guarded 
facility. Once a year a purge of deer is ordered, and the hunters 
flock to the site.

Lexington Army Depot (Avon, KY) is downwind about 26mi, and is the 
former site of depot repair services. It is now extinct, and has 
Raytheon doing contract work for the special forces.

The original "dogs" term came when a huge order of R-390x receivers 
were requested. During re-assembly of the '390, all the good 
modules were used up in the first few waves of production. Then all 
the modules set aside because of complex problems (dogs) had to be 
worked to meet the final total shipping quota. there were a lot of 
hair pulling on many of these "dogs" trying to get them to meet mil 
specs. The final receivers met all specs, and had the blood, sweat 
and tears to go with them.

73 Bill N4LG



At 06:12 PM 10/17/2016, Les Zwiebel WB6ORZ wrote:
>Fascinating site, Bill. In the Hunters' section, I looked for a 
>link to apply to hunt for a R390-A Audio deck, and also one with 
>various Bandwidth mechanical filters, but all I came up with were 
>schedules to bag deer or turkeys. But I enjoyed the visit anyway.
>Seriously, must have been great to work there.
>(((73)))
>Les WB6ORZ