[IRCA] "Julian Creek" R-390As. Mine came from Ernie Cooper

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:15 AM 3/22/2007 -0400, you wrote:

>Oh yeah, that guy who sells those lives in Western Ma. Those all need 
>work. I'm sure whoever buys them will get them going and sell them. He 
>sold a lot of 25 several months ago, the final price was about 5000.00. 
>Some of those came out of a creek where the government dumped them. Our 
>government in it'sd infinite wisdom left thousands of those sitting around 
>outside on pallets rather than selling them to people who would kill for 
>them, many of them are in pretty sad shape but are being restored as we 
>speak. Fair radio bought many from the creek and sold them as yellow 
>stripers and many were restored. Check out the 390 list also the 
>boatanchors list for more info,

I think these are called "Julian Creek" sets.  A whole bunch of them turned 
up several years ago. As far as I know, they shaped up and played OK. Took 
a lot of work, but the elements didn't do nearly the damage that you'd 
expect. Shows what neat set the R-390A is. AND
I'm glad that more are showing up.

The one I advertised for $550 here on IRCA I bought from the late, great 
Ernest R. Cooper in 1985. I was on Okinawa (USMC Air Station Futenma) at 
the time, and I had to get Ernie to sign a notarized letter that he was 
selling it to me before it could be shipped from MA to Okinawa. Still have 
it with all the set's paperwork.

I acquired another set that works fine, but needs cleaning and a general 
overhaul.

That and my own set just take up too much space, and that's why I selling 
my own.  I just overhauled the R-F on my set.

It's a Motorola s/n 4823 according to the nomenclature tag, but most of the 
modules are Electronics Assistance Corp. (a captive corp. of Hammarlund set 
up to build R-390As on federal contract).

73,

Charlie

Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina 


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