[R-390] Shock mount update

[Les Locklear]

From what I remember (I'm 76 and my memory isn't what it once was), Mac offered those back around 1997 1998.

Mac was a contractor that did various installations on military bases back then. One that comes to mind was the emergency generator set-up at the Keesler AFB Medical Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. He had connections in their supply chain and was able to obtain those cabinets. I had one in black (I don't remember the manufacturer), complete with the shock mounts and skid plates in black. It matched my black faced R-390A at that time. Wow, that was over 21 - 22 years ago. Time flies.

I'm sure Mac will chime in with the "rest of the story."

Les Locklear

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Some people just don't have film.
..Unknown..



----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Martin <pitfit at comcast.net>
To: Paul Staupe <staupe at gmail.com>
Cc: <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 12/1/2019 1:39:59 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Shock mount update
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“Leave it to Surplus Sales
to find a cache of 50 year old mounts!”

Indeed! Leave it to Mac, W5MC.

A number of years ago, I and many (a few?) others bought NOS (or newly manufactured?) CY-979A cabinets w/shock mounts and skids from Mac. A little later I bought a 51J-4 cabinet from him - the “real one”, with a hinged lid and the appropriately-sized panel cutout on the back.

Both cabinets came wrapped, packaged, and were clearly ”brand new”. Just beautiful.

Disclaimer - >not< cheap! I never knew how Mac came by them or where he is today. He was a big CCA guy back in the day.

Maybe Locklear, Rippel, or Howard, W5HM, who lives nearby, will know the story and provenance of Mac’s “finds” re: R-390A and J-4 cabinets.

Dan
WB4GRA

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> On Dec 1, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Paul Staupe <staupe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Leave it to Surplus Sales
> to find a cache of 50 year old mounts!
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