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They can be shipped by truck. Nothing else like having a semi-truck pull up in
front of the house and knowing your new receiver has arrived ! jw wb9uai |
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J999w wrote:
They can be shipped by truck. Nothing else like having a semi-truck pull up in front of the house and knowing your new receiver has arrived ! jw wb9uai It's also possible to ship it by bus, like Trailways. This is one of the safest ways to ship heavy/fragile equipment. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Thanks, Frank, for the link. Sad.
The R390A/URR Ultimate Performance, General Coverage AM & CW Receiver It works fine for SSB, too. In 1960, during a sea trial on the USS Little Rock as a Philco Tech Rep, I used one to run phone patches. The rig was a 1500 watt TMC vfo phasing rig. (It had an 8 Hz frequency variation due to the vibration on the variable capacitor caused by a bent propeller shaft. LOL) I had such great luck with the stock R390A (in the main transmitter room) and the Navy guys in Radio Central were having so much trouble with the TMC ssb adapters they had down there, they started using the 390's without the adapters as I suggested. G Bill, K5BY |
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![]() "WShoots1" wrote in message ... Thanks, Frank, for the link. Sad. I suppose that's how the government treats much of it's oblselete surplus. Not as something which will be useful and valueable to someone else, but as scrap. Anyway, the picture was taken years ago, and it seems Fair Radio ended up with many of these radios. I was seriously considering getting a R-390 a few years ago. I have some test equipment, and the servicing documentation is excellent. I figured I could get it going very nicely. I didn't. Hobby money's a little tight now, and I really don't have the space. Oh, well. Other radios are more practical, but few are so cool. Frank Dresser |
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Frank D.: Other radios are more practical, but few are so cool.
My late wife, Ruby, N5GIN, was more interested in ham radio when the radios looked like real radios instead of kitchen appliances. She would have appreciated that say, "Real radios glow in the dark." I always wanted a JRC shipboard station. It was neat. It was clean looking yet it looked business like. And it had everything. Retuning the HF transmitter for the ham bands would have been no problem. The European made 400 watt ssb stations were really super. Those were nice little packages. I know that people like Fair Radio would come along and buy a complete inventory of surplus stuff at pennies a pound. I guess that was more efficient for the Government. 73, Bill, K5BY |
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WShoots1 wrote:
I know that people like Fair Radio would come along and buy a complete inventory of surplus stuff at pennies a pound. I guess that was more efficient for the Government. On balance, we should probably be very thankful that they (people like Fair Radio) did. -- John Miller Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -O'Henry |
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John: On balance, we should probably be very thankful that they (people like
Fair Radio) did. You're right about that.In the past, I'd had stations of all military surplus, stations of a caliber that I couldn't have afforded otherwise. Bill, K5BY |
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![]() "WShoots1" wrote in message ... Frank D.: Other radios are more practical, but few are so cool. My late wife, Ruby, N5GIN, was more interested in ham radio when the radios looked like real radios instead of kitchen appliances. She would have appreciated that say, "Real radios glow in the dark." Alot of Hallicrafters radios just looked impressive. The SX 99 isn't a great radio, but it has two big semi-circular dials, sort of like a mid 50s Chevrolet, and thirteen knobs and switches on the front panel and everyone of them does something. And behind the facade, it seems like each of these radios has at least one example of "ten cent engineering". I'm not using the term "ten cent engineering" in a disparaging way. There's another saying: "A good engineer can do for a dime what any damn fool can do for a dollar" I always wanted a JRC shipboard station. It was neat. It was clean looking yet it looked business like. And it had everything. Retuning the HF transmitter for the ham bands would have been no problem. The European made 400 watt ssb stations were really super. Those were nice little packages. I know that people like Fair Radio would come along and buy a complete inventory of surplus stuff at pennies a pound. I guess that was more efficient for the Government. 73, Bill, K5BY Yeah, the government auctions off it's surplus, so I suppose we all had the same chance to get a pallet of weatherbeaten radios. I have no idea what percentage of the radios were salvageable. It's a good thing for everybody there's somebody like Fair to take the chance. Besides, I like dealing with Fair, even though I've never bought a big ticket item from them. It looks like the government now has a contractor to handle some auctions on the internet: http://www.govliquidation.com/ There's some trucks, like a few Kaiser Jeeps and a Studebaker Packard: http://www.govliquidation.com/list/e1020?tid=GLSPPR0175 Frank Dresser |
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![]() WShoots1 wrote in message ... Frank D.: Other radios are more practical, but few are so cool. My late wife, Ruby, N5GIN, was more interested in ham radio when the radios looked like real radios instead of kitchen appliances. She would have appreciated that say, "Real radios glow in the dark." I always wanted a JRC shipboard station. It was neat. It was clean looking yet it looked business like. And it had everything. Retuning the HF transmitter for the ham bands would have been no problem. The European made 400 watt ssb stations were really super. Those were nice little packages. I know that people like Fair Radio would come along and buy a complete inventory of surplus stuff at pennies a pound. I guess that was more efficient for the Government. 73, Bill, K5BY That raises a question I've been asking for awhile... As the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ended the 500 kHz distress and safety watch what has happened to all the shipboard radio gear? I would assume there would be hundreds of Mackay consoles dumped onto the surplus market yet I have only seen one MRU-35A and a couple of receivers in civilian hands. Besides... I would like to get my hands on one of those Chelsea radioroom clocks---even though they kept bad time. RG |
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