[R-390] R390A contractors and numbers of units

[Roy Morgan]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:28 PM, wb3fau at att.net wrote:

> Heres some general questions for users of these receivers.  How   
> many units were built?

Tom Marcotte has kept the production figures.  Here is the likely  
outdated list I have from some time ago.  A quick Google search did  
not reveal the current location of Tom's  list. I hope someone reports  
it.



R-390A/URR Contract List
Maintained by TF Marcotte, N5OFF
Courir26 at yahoo.com

Special thanks to Wally Chamber-K5OP, Les Locklear, and the hundreds  
of owners
who have contributed the information from their radios.

The numbers shown are high serial numbers reported by owners.


Revised 1/02/03


Maker                                           Order or  
Contract       Hi s.n.

Collins                                         14214- 
PH-51             984
Collins                                         375- 
P-54                310
Motorola                                        363- 
PH-54               3427
Collins                                         8719- 
P-55               4982
Motorola                                        0014- 
PH-56              4909
Motorola                                        14385-PC-58- 
A1-51       5988
Stewart-Warner                                  42428- 
PC-59             2120
Stewart-Warner                                  20139-PC-60- 
A1-51       4511
Electronic Assistance Corp                      23137- 
PC-60             4255
Capehart Corp.                                  21582- 
PC-61             4237
Capehart Corp. (for NBS),actual s.n. 10012       
None                    12
Amelco/Teledyne Systems Corp                    35064- 
PC-62             3646
Capehart Corp.for Adler Electronics             20878- 
PP-63             5
Imperial Electronics/Teledyne Systems Corp      37856- 
PC-63             3976
Electronic Assistance Corp                      DAABO5-67- 
C-0155*       10717
EAC Industries/Hammarlund                       consumer  
run            151
Dittmore-Freimuth                               DAAB05-68- 
C-0040        215
Fowler Industries                               N 00024-84- 
C-2027       5

                                                 Total of high  
s.n.s     54,450

*Same production run as        FR-36-039-N-6-00189(E)


Notes:

-     EAC radios were made at Red bank, NJ. These are the latest mass- 
produced sets.
-     All Dittmore-Freimuth radios were made by EAC at Red Bank, NJ.
-     Amelco, Teledyne and Imperial radios all made in the same Culver  
City, CA plant by Teledyne.
-     Communications Systems of Morton Grove, IL made some whole  
radios on old tooling acquired
from Stewart-Warner, but they were reportedly so bad that the Army  
rejected the lot.
-     Clavier, Capehart and Fowler were all rooted in the same NY  
company. Fowler radios were hand made at Port Jervis, NY in the mid  
80’s as a product of outdated specifications for the Whidbey Island  
Class of LSD ships made by Avondale Shipyards of Louisiana, starting  
with Gunston Hall, LSD 44, April, 1989. The total number is known to  
be five units.
-     Capehart for NBS s.n.s likely start at 10000 as only one radio  
has surfaced.



These R-390A contracts are not
included as no whole set examples
have been witnessed. Parts and
modules exist, however (spares?).

Electronic Assistance Corp                     DAAB05-68-C-0039         
145
Electronic Assistance Corp                     N00126-70-C-0359         
15
Stewart-Warner                                 DA-36-039-SC-81549       
1948
Communications System (xtal deck)              FR-11-022-C-4-26418(E)   
139
Clavier Corp.                                   DAAG05-67- 
C-0016        ?
Clavier Corp.                                   DAAG05-67- 
C-0136        115
Motorola    (RF Deck)                           14385- 
PC-58-51          6516*
Teledyne    (IF Deck)                           37856- 
PC-63             6595*
(s.n. higher than that found on radios of same cont. no. Not sure of  
totals)
Hacking Labs, Menlo Park CA   PS Deck           DLA400-80- 
C-2948        1477
Capehart                                        Audio 21908- 
PC-61       ?


CY-979A Cabinets

Stromberg-Carlson, Division of General Dynamics, Rochester, New  
York 
                                                                             39692 
-PP-58             42
Stromberg- 
Carlson                                     ?                 822
Steelcase 
                                              ?                 ?
Teller  
Industries                                     ?                 ?
Laboy J Industries, Camden                       
SCDL135814C             2058
Crosley Div. of AVCO MFG. Corp.                21316-PH-56              
12
Andrews Inc,  
Philadelphia                             ?                 ?
affet Electronics, owned by W2ERJ, Milt Taffet       ?                 ?
Barker and  
Williamson                                 ?                 ?
Daystrom


CY-917 Cabinet
Collins Radio                                   14214- 
PH-51-93          ?


Modified Variants


R-725
Motorola Inc. (prototypes)                      476-PH-56-91   
s.n.X7    7
Servo Industries                                36-039- 
N-5-00093(E)     68
Arvin Industries Inc.                           DAAB05-67- 
C-2338        236

                                                  
Total                   311





R-1247/GRC-129

Manson Labs                                    AF30(635)30962           
161
R-1981/TSC-25                                   14385- 
pc-58             296

Roy

Roy Morgan
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