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Curioser 'n' curioser...If only these old sets could "talk"...I bet THAT one has a REAL story to tell...The 2 I've always wondered about are my R-389, & my 1955 contract Collins R-390A...389s are rare in any case, this one had taken a helluva whack on the back, sometime early in its life, & apparently spent most of its life as a "Hangar Queen" someplace...The 390A, genuine Collins-built sets are scarce, you only see them in the 1st early contract numbers, they actually made very few...I bought this one-Stole it, actually- from Phil Sellati, the big dawg at Fair Radio. Sent it to Rick Mish, he told me I had a REAL honey-We figured it might have belonged to some big-shot at Wright-Pat AFB, 'cause Fair got it locally, they told me. It bore no signs of ever having been depot-repaired, all the modules were Collins made, & it has some sort of super-precise VFO-Rick said I didn't have a radio as much as I had a frequency counter. He offered me $5K for it, or 2 of his "Museum-Grade" restorations..I politely demurred. But yeah, if only these old things could talk...
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Benevolent Despot
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