[R-390] Question about a R-390A & R-725 with a silver faceplate

Les Locklear leslocklear at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 25 18:12:13 EDT 2024


This set-up came from an old Western Electric Monitoring Station in New York city area. A SP-600 with a silver colored front panel a Hammarlund SPC-10 SSB Converter and a Bendix speaker panel with selectable speaker outputs, it had an 8" Utah speaker. Crappy photo...This was obtained from a SK named Hal (Harold Butcher) in New York in the 80's.
 
Les


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Starke <mstarke at solutions-handling.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 9/25/2024 7:15:59 AM
Subject: [R-390] Question about a R-390A & R-725 with a silver faceplate
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> Good morning to everyone in the group.
> I have just become a new member, since I stumbled over Larry Haney's articles about the R-390.
> 
> Recently one each R-390a & R-725 came into my possession. Both of which have a 
> polished silver faceplate.
> Attached you find a photo.
> 
> One of the receivers was built in 1951 by the Capehart Corp. (#1830) and the 
> other receiver is an R-725 (#10) by Arvin Industries.
> 
> Both receivers have all the features they should have, but come with a very 
> well and professionally made silver polished (aluminium) front panel.
> It does not look like if some hobbyist has laid his hands on that.
> Since I 
> couldn't find anything one the net about these "silver front panel" R-390's I 
> am hoping that one of the members of this group might shed some light on that.
> 
> As to my radio collecting background:
> I am an avid radio listener, with unfortunately only little experience in 
> extensive repairs on these beauties.
> It all started in 1984, when Bob (WB1GCM) and Kathy (KA1RWY) gave me my first 
> set ARC-5/SCR-274 receivers.
> From then on, I started collecting a few BC-348's in all sorts of variants, including the Russian "copy", the US-9 and the US-9 DMS.
> Over the years several Hallicrafter models joined the lot, with Hammarlunds, 
> Eddystone receivers, Siemens, Telefunken and many more military radios from 
> WWII all the way up to Watkins-Johnson gear.
> Off course it is all too much, but luckily there is the barn, with plenty of 
> storage room.
> It is just a fine hobby.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael Starke
> from Kempen, Germany
> 
> 
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