Rockwell Collins HF-380 professional HF SSB transceiver

This is the Rockwell Collins HF-380. an HF SSB/CW transceiver that was mostly used in government and commercial applications. The US military also used this radio in certain support roles. It is an upgraded/extended version of the Collins KWM-380, the latter sold in radio amateur applications. Uncle Sam paid close to 8 grand for this HF-380 transceiver in 1980, in today's money that equals $25,000 US dollars. Even to today's standards, it is an incredibly good radio. The HF-380 was standard capable of general coverage transmitting anywhere between 1.6 and 30 MHz. It was also equipped with a high stability ovenized reference oscillator, which is an FCC requirement for professional HF radios. The one you see here also has the 1.7kHz narrow SSB filter installed, and comes with the original hard to find direct frequency entry keypad. the HF-380 had the keypad interface build-in as standard, as well as the noise blanker and the RF speech processor boards.