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

[Tom Bridgers]

I found two R-390A's for sure, and maybe a third one below the first two.
-Tom KE4RHH


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

FWIW, the FFG-7 frigates were built about the same time as the Avondale
Fowler Fiasco. Every ship had an an R-390A installed. Somebody at Bath Iron
Works knew how to procure these receivers to meet the USN requirement.
Here are photos of the various ships under construction 1979-87. How many
R-390A receivers can you spot?
http://www.navy-radio.com/ships/ffg7.htm

Cheers
Nick

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 6:47 PM Roger Ruszkowski <flowertime01 at wmconnect.com>
wrote:

> 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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