Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Jim Thompson, W4THU The Radio Works — Portsmouth, Virginia St. Juliens Creek Eyewitness Jim Thompson’s eyewitness account of the St. Juliens Creek Annex surplus pile stands as one of the most vivid pieces of…
Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Don Heywood, WC4G South Carolina R-390 Non-A Specialist & Restorer Don Heywood earned his reputation in the R-390 community through deep, practical expertise with the original R-390 — the non-A variant that, while less…
Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Chuck Teeters, W4MEW Fort Monmouth Nomenclature Tags Historian & R-725/URR Researcher Chuck Teeters brought a historian’s rigor to the R-390A community through two distinctive contributions: his research into the Fort Monmouth nomenclature tag replacement…
Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Richard Biddle Gear Train Documentation Making the Intimidating Accessible The gear train of the R-390A is one of the most mechanically complex assemblies in any piece of communications equipment ever fielded. Collins’ engineers designed…
Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Floyd Soo, W8RO HI-RES Communications Bringing Restoration to Video Floyd Soo recognized something that the R-390A community needed before most of its members realized it themselves: the knowledge held by the hobby’s most skilled…
Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Larry Haney has been a steadying presence on the R-390 reflector mailing list for decades, contributing practical wisdom on R-390A alignment, troubleshooting, and restoration with the authority of someone who has spent a lifetime…
VK6ADA · r-390a.net · Boatanchor Community Profile Nick England, K4NYW:A Boatanchor Radio Legend The man who built the most comprehensive online archive of U.S. Navy radio communications equipment — and preserved a thousand R-390A engineering drawings for all of us…
Boatanchor Radio Legends Chuck Rippel, WA4HHG The R-390A Restoration Master Chesapeake, Virginia “If you want just one rig in your collection to be right — perhaps beyond your own ability on the ‘390A — you couldn’t do better.” — R-390…
VK6ADA · r-390a.net · Boatanchor Community Profile Dr. Dallas S. Lankford IV:A Boat Anchor Radio Legend Mathematician, master modifier and the man who taught the R-390A to copy SSB Feature Article March 2026 1942 – 2020 At a Glance Born…
VK6ADA · r-390a.net · Boatanchor Community Profile Dr. James A. Moorer:A Boat Anchor Radio Legend How an Academy Award–winning digital audio pioneer became one of the most prolific archivists and restorers of Cold War–era military receivers Feature Article March 2026…