[GreenKeys] Frequency deviations - Story Time

[tony.podrasky]

Duncan; you're correct!

We had this HUGE power supply called a Basiler (SP?)
that could power shelf-fulls of those MODEMs.

Must have been one of the other projects I worked on
while I was there. We built several things for the
Air Force.

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC

On 03/06/2018 02:13 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Great story!
>
> But didn't the MD-522 run on 27VDC??
>
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
>
>
> On 06-Mar-18 16:22, tony.podrasky wrote:
>> GA OMs;
>>
>> When I was a young guy, back in the '70's I worked in a factory
>> where we were building the MD-522 (MODEMs).
>>
>> One of the tests was to vary the frequency fed to the MD-522
>> because out in the field those things have to put up with
>> all sorts of abuses.
>>
>> We had to punch in and out on a punch clock, which was across
>> from the manager's desk.
>>
>> A couple of the guys wired the punch clock to the variable frequency
>> power generator. They'd slow it down during lunch hour and then speed
>> it up afterwards.
>>
>> The boss never caught on - because he didn't wear a wrist watch. :-)
>>
>> UE,
>> K2EAA - TONY
>> NNNN
>> ZCZC
>>
>>
>
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