[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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