[Milsurplus] [MRCA] T-368

[wf2u at ws19ops.com]

Here is my take on it:
The only mounting modification - if one can call this a modification -  
is installing casters in the existing mounting holes in the skids.
I can move the T-358 by myself, just by pulling out the bottom  
heaviest drawer. I learned to do this also all by myself, and to put  
it back as well.
Without all the drawers, 2 people in good shape can lift/move the  
cabinet using the handles, even without the casters. The drawers can  
be fairly comfortably handled and maneuvered in/out of the cabinet by  
2 men.
So that's why there are handles on the side of the T-368.

So there it is - does anyone have a better explanation?

73 de Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC


Quoting Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu>:

> 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?
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
>
>
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