[R-390] R: Wow! Fowler R-390A Will some one write one for Wi Lie and the Pearls of Wisdom.

[Les Locklear]

Well, I'm going to try to answer this despite my brain saying leave it alone...

The U.S. Navy neglected to remove the R-390A/URR requirement for the LSD (not LPD) Gunston Hall Class ships Gunston Hall 44 and Comstock 45. The purchasing department at Avondale shipyards sent out a bid for five (5) R-390A/URR receivers. Fowler Industries won. They built five. Fowler originated from Clavier Corp. that was once Capehart. So, they had the knowledge to build them.

No aliens or any conspiracy to sneak them in were used in the process and the spare parts were going to be included, but they got waylaid to the B-29 base that was being built on the moon. But the Air Force found out that tubes wouldn't operate in those conditions, so the receivers and spares ended up in the Gunston Hall class LSD (Landing Ship Dock) ships being built in Avondale shipyards.

That's all I have to say...

Les Locklear


----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Ruszkowski <flowertime01 at wmconnect.com>
Reply-To: Roger Ruszkowski <flowertime01 at wmconnect.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 6/26/2020 5:37:25 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] R: Wow! Fowler R-390A Will some one write one for Wi Lie and the Pearls of Wisdom.
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Fellows,
What navy ship did Avondale Ship Yards build on the west side of the river and north of the rail bridge.What was Avondale building in 1984 the supposed year of the Fowler Contracts.
What year was that ship launched?
What are the names of the people talking to Avondale and hand crafting R390/A receivers?
The Fowler receivers are reported as NOS and not rebuilds because Avondale did not know how toask the Army signal corps for five receivers specified in the part manifest on a Navy Contract.
The Fowler receivers for Avondale pre date my time in New Orleans.The basic story that some one was paid to do a sub study on a procurement contract is true.Some one was paid to put something that quacked like an R390/A together for a enough photoops and documents to produce a white paper. Avondale may have taken possession of a pileof items that quacked like an R390/A with one of Minnie Pearls price tags attached to the guard bar. Other wise the whole Fowler Build is an elaborate fake in that there was nevera contract to purchase receivers. The contracts detail studies and tests to be conducted and reported.How much to build an R390/A and why should we believe your estimates.Why was that silly question a sub contract item in a Navy Ship contract.This is how lawyers learn the answers to the questions before they ask awitness on the stand to explain it to the jury if you will. This stuff is just keeping upwith cost and having a base line to compare with. 
See picture A, see picture B, picture B cost less. Please Initial here.
The LPD-17 Shipboard network requirements grilled the network industry for compliance tosoftware and hardware requirements. Product testing combed out so many bugs with the assembled testingresources in the San Diego Laboratories we had charge numbers to entertain different vendor representatives who came to watch their products display undocumented features. Tell the Navy a Cisco productfails to make the specification requirement and Cisco will send some one qualified to come and check.
All the LPD -17 and up ships have a room with four and a spare R390/A receivers in use.I told my Shipboard Wide Area Network design team we would not be sharing space withthat compartment. We can put fiber optic network racks any where. Not in a room with an R390/A.We were not even allowed next door or down stairs. We are FCC complaint WTF.Being prophetic and right does not lead to accolades. Yes we are the secret ship board network,but we still do not have a need to enter that space. Yes the network switch noise is objectionableto the HF spectrum.
There is a room full of spies on a Navy Ship with 500 Marines who are monitoring the spectrum from DC to daylight.Who would guess. I did not know the specifications for every item in the compartment, but I knew what the expectations of the Navy and Marines are.
There was floor space in that compartment but not for network switches.Tons of printer paper stored in the floor space was ok. 
The LPD-17 ships had requirements for sound powered phones.Avondale did not know how to request the parts from the Navy supply chain asstock items. It took a while for management to catch that run away in procurement.The sound powered phones were not part of the network and up to me for oversight.A mentor can only do so much at lunch.
The history of the Fowler receivers has some facts that caused some one to put togethersome receivers thinking they were going to sell them to Avondale for use aboard a Navy Ship.
The Navy contract said new ship parts.The Army Signal Corp said good used R390/A like new.The correct answer was to amend the line item to accept some existing R390/A 's.
Avondale let a bid request asking how much to manufacture the required new receivers.This was just a spec request, the Navy are asking what would it cost to take this path to contract fulfillment.Get paid to put a production proposal and cost offer together.Black ink on white paper = paycheck on Friday.Outrageous procurement cost in the paper submitted with invoice for payment in full.Get paid to conduct a test and study to support the cost in the original paper.
Do we have sufficient paper here to let some one signoff on using R390/A receivers as isfrom the signal corp. They promise to give us good parts.
Ok the Navy has been billed and paid for three time the cost of the Receivers.The stock stuff will be good to go.
Who built what from what when for a Navy Contract associated with Avondale Industriesthe ship building company in Louisiana. Not the cotton company of bandage fame in WalhallaSouth Carolina and other locations. 
Did the Fowler receives get dumped into Julian Creek?And found in the rescue?
May we have some real time line and history here please?
Ask me why I retired after 20 years at Hughes and Raytheon at age 55.
Respectfully,
Roger Ruszkowski

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