[QuadList] [Milsurplus] 390As were everywhere

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we had 2  of them at the transmitter site at Luke AFB  early 1970's as WWV 
and   backup WWV  for the  control tower...  sometimes at night I  would  go 
over and  use the spare  to SWL with!
 
 

Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 



In a message dated 3/10/2011 3:00:16 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
MillerKE6F at aol.com writes:

Back  in the early 70s my employer supplied the microwave link between   
Goldstone Tracking Station and JPL-Cal Tech in Pasadena.  While  making a  
visit 
to oversee the alignment and testing of a 240 KB  data link (That was the  
state of the art at the time to cram a 1/4  megabit signal into a Super 
Group  
Channel) that provided the Deep  Space Probe links from Goldstone to JPL I 
heard  the familiar drone  of WWV coming from one of the rows of equipment 
in 
the  Goldstone  communications complex and was surprised to see the   
Engineer/Technician taking a time hack from a trusty R390A receiver  tuned 
to 10  MHz. 
Although not an odd event, it did seem strange in  that every row of  
equipment in the room seemed to have an HP  Atomic clock literally ticking 
away  
the time on the little clock  the unit's face plate.  So even in the  
presence 
of super  accurate time references, the old R390A was a hard habit to   
break.  

73
Bob,  KE6F
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