[Milsurplus] [MRCA] T-368

[w7qho]

Ray,

Suspect the side handles are for rolling it around on it's base assembly, not lifting.  The base assys. are hard to find and have a large footprint (stable) but clumsy for many hamshacks.  I bolted  6 small casters to the bottom of both my units and haven't had any tip-over problems. Good question on the clamper.  Only makes a for lot of heat, though, in the CW mode.  The sleeve around the clamp tube socket appears to be intended to prevent a regular 807 from being installed, only an 807W or military/commercial equivalent.  Nothing in the manuals on this but my take is that the W would have a higher breakdown voltage rating on the socket end due to the button base construction of the tube envelope.  Note that 2500 volts could appear on the screen pin under some conditions.

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:54:55 AM, "Ray Fantini" <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:
Why are their handles on the side of the T-368? Is it possible that any group of men can get together and lift it with all the drawers in place? Will the existing handles hold the weight of the transmitter together if you get six or so around it to lift the thing? I have seen the 368 in action years before running teletype in the angry twenty six, and have had the drawers open and tuned the beast but never realized they were that heavy until now that I have bought one. This one is a real basket case with just about every stage being "Ham Hacked" and looks to be about a year long project, by the way anyone have a base assembly for a 368? The last owner removed it and installed casters on the bottom of the case making all seven hundred pounds nice and unstable. Also anyone have any idea what's behind the idea of using a clamper on the PA screen instead of just biasing the PA tube into cut off? Was it to run the PA tube in a more linear state or an attempt to keep the PA voltage
from floating too high? Or is it just a good way of developing heat when the transmitter is in standby?


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