[R-390] NON A service docs

[Cecil Acuff]

Just as easy to say R-390/URR...leaves no doubt.

Everybody has their buttons...the Non-A thing is Les'

Some folks get upset when we go to talking about Kielbasa for ballast tubes and lubrication.


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> On Feb 25, 2017, at 6:08 PM, Francesco Ledda <frledda at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Les, relax, please!  Find something else to complain about.
> 
> Non-A is used to point out that the object it is not an R-390A/URR. B
> eing the production run for the A, much larger than the Non-A, when talking
> about these two brothers, many find easy to make sure than the listener
> surely understands that isn't an A on a Not-A.
> 
> A or Not-A, they are still brothers.   Some people could have said I have a
> heavy 390, and people with experience with 390s would have immediately
> undertood that they were
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-390 [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Les Locklear
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 5:08 PM
> To: R390 Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [R-390] NON A service docs
> 
> I was going to keep my mouth shut, but the "Non A" always got under my skin,
> and  at my age it gets thinner.
> 
> 
> I'd like to plant my size eleven squarely in the keister of whoever started
> using it. It's just another example of the dumbing down of America and a
> ride I won't be going on.
> 
> 
> I suppose a Hammarlund SP-600 Non J, JX, JLX or VLF will be next...
> 
> 
> Les Locklear
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 9:36 AM
> To: Bill Cotter
> Cc: Les Locklear; R390 Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [R-390] NON A service docs
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Bill Cotter
> <n4lg at qx.net<mailto:n4lg at qx.net>> wrote:
> Les,
> 
> I did as you suggested and Googled "R390/URR Non-A", and got 1,440 hits. So,
> maybe the government didn't buy any "R390/URR Non-A" receivers, but 1,440
> sites believe that they exist ;^)  Quite simply, this is how language
> evolves.
> 
> 
> Or, as in this case Bill - devolves. Describing something as what it isn't
> instead of what it is, or framing it with a later sub-model as the
> progenitor. Akin to saying something like "I've got a '69 Chevelle non-SS".
> 
> Fortunately there's hope: Googling R-390/URR returned over 57,000 hits and
> R-390 receiver, over 650,000. The new-age ebonics approach remains but a
> small sliver of the overall discussion out there. Seems to primarily be an
> internet thing.
> 
> Hang in there, Les!
> 
> de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ  (o:
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