[Heathkit] Running the HX-10 Marauder outside its cabinet

[Rick Poole]

At 02:47 PM 11/11/2011, Ross Stenberg wrote:

 >>>>>
>For what it's worth, TVI is a rare thing since analog TV has gone away
>and everything is digital mainly in the UHF region. The lower frequency
>TV channels basically do not exist anymore.
<<<<<

Still not really legal to transmit excessively outside of your 
desired frequency, though.

I just went down to the basement and hauled the Marauder up to the 
shack (man, that thing is HEAVY... not as bad as the DX-100 though) 
and discovered to my dismay... the Marauder chassis is too wide to 
fit in the rack!  The chassis itself just barely fits... kind of an 
interference fit... but there are some components mounted to the 
inside wall of the chassis with screws, and the screw heads on the 
outside of the chassis won't clear the rack rails.

It's almost like Heathkit made a conscious effort to discourage or 
prevent rack-mounting their equipment... non-standard front panel 
mounting hole spacings, and a chassis that's too wide.

Guess I'll have to go see what the XYL did with our Dremel tool, so I 
can widen the rack a tiny bit where the screw heads are.

Nothing is ever easy... :-(

Rick WA1RKT