On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mike Sawyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone also mentioned, > I think it was on this board, about the fact that the government was holding > on to Collins KWM-2As for that expressed purpose.
That was true, though I'm not sure it is anymore, Mikey. They actually had a bunch cleaned up and ready to go for the first Gulf War in 91 when the new SS rigs proved to be a weak point due to the fine sand in the Middle East which caused everything from clogged air filters to static zappage galore. IIRC, Dennis Brothers was selected to go through and prep a bunch of the FRC-93 packages. The war ended before they made it to the theater, and shortly thereafter a bunch of them were surplussed through a company in California called Davilyn I think. R-390As were also called up but met a similar fate. They apparently ran another run of cabinets for them as well, which were showing up until recently. Though I wouldn't doubt that there are still some sets tucked away in a dark warehouse corner somewhere (that shot from the end of Indian Jones comes to mind), my guess is that much of the stuff was surplussed or run through Cap'n Crunch back in the 90s. Fortunately for the world, enough 'nutty' ham types hung onto theirs. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4 ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
