[R-390] R-1247 AN/GRC-129 followed me home from NEARfest

John Vendely jvendely at cfl.rr.com
Sun Oct 16 17:22:49 EDT 2022


The four or five Manson R-1247s I've seen were all originally 
manufactured by Collins.  Not sure if this was the case for all of them...

73,

John K9WT

On 10/16/2022 9:32 AM, Larry H wrote:
> Nice find, John.  Our doc says that these units were R-390A's that Manson
> Labs modified.  I assume that they were any breed 390A that they could get
> their hands on, or did one or specific manufacturers make the 390A's for
> them?  Does anyone know how many units the contract was for and what year
> the contract was let.?
>
> Regards, Larry
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 5:43 AM John Wendler <wendlerjrv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was told the lower frequencies were inoperative, so I have some work to
>> do.
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