[Milsurplus] More Merrill speculation

mac w7qho at aol.com
Sun Feb 24 02:16:38 EST 2013


Believe the "real" PRC-1 used an 807 in the PA and had a built-in AC  
supply.  No provision for a hand cranked generator included and given  
the set's relatively high power and all the indirectly heated cathode  
tubes in the set hand cranking not have been feasible in any case.

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Feb 23, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Hue Miller wrote:

> http://www.marauder.org/p_112.htm
>
> Shows the generator, which sure enuff, looks like the GN-33 in the
> SCR-288 manual online ( thanks, somebody! ):
>
> http://kpjung.de/htm2/SCR288.pdf
>
> BUT.....the PRC-1 has a 2E22 tube in final, 1.5A   and the GN-33  
> puts out 1.65 amp spec. I don't remember what the osc. tube in
> the PRC-1 is. But it's going to draw at least 0.3A, right? See what
> I'm getting at?
> -Hue ______________________________________________________________
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