[MRCA] T-368 mailing list!

[Joe Foley]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-368_BC-610/





--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> From: Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu>
> Subject: [MRCA] T-368
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 12:54 PM
> 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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