[R-390] Depot Dawgs (dogs)

[Les Zwiebel]

   Tnx for the nice reply, Bill. Some great history here.
   (((73)))
   Les

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Cotter [mailto:n4lg at qx.net] 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 5:58 PM
To: R-390 at mailman.qth.net; Les Zwiebel WB6ORZ
Subject: Depot Dawgs (dogs)

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