[MRCA] Heavy stuff- Who's collection weighs the most?

[Peter Gottlieb]

That’s great, a nice looking shack. 

Good racks and slides are very difficult to find where I am. Maybe I don’t know the right places to look or who to ask. I end up with equipment in stacks and usually the one I need to get to is on the bottom. 


Peter

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 4:46 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> Picture of the workshop. The RF-350K and power supply are mounted on slide rails at the top of the right hand rack. Don’t think I own anything that’s light or small, and have the aching back to prove it.
> The good thing is doing a lot of broadcast work have a good source for racks, shelves and slide rails. With all the downsizing in broadcast from analog to digital and digital distribution and everything moving to server’s lots of racks and hardware can be found at most TV stations free for the taking.
> All of the radio racks are old RCA Broadcast racks built back at the dawn of time to hold huge heavy TV stuff, the computers all live in Digital Equipment Corp racks that once held VAX servers.
> A good strong concrete floor also helps.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> From: Peter Gottlieb [mailto:kb2vtl at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 4:18 PM
> To: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> Cc: jeepp <jeepp at comcast.net>; MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo at comcast.net>; mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MRCA] 24 volt power supply
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> Yes, indeed it is a boat anchor, especially with that power supply. Nobody breaking into your home is going to steal it though!
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> Peter
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> On Jan 3, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> I stand corrected, don’t have it in front of me but no matter how far away if you ever had to move a 350K or rack mount one you will never forget how heavy it is!
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> RF
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> From: Peter Gottlieb [mailto:kb2vtl at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 4:10 PM
> To: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> Cc: jeepp <jeepp at comcast.net>; MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo at comcast.net>; mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MRCA] 24 volt power supply
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> The RF-350K is a 12 volt radio. The power supply takes in either 12 or 24 volts DC or 120 or 240 volts AC and makes the 12 volts for the radio. At one point I ran the radio part from a 12 volt battery and didn’t even use the bottom part. 
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> Yes, lots of EMI filtering in there especially for the DC-DC part and also there is a fan for the rear radio heat sink. If you’re not running RTTY the big heat sink barely gets warm. 
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