RW>Hi Ed,   
   Hi Richard,   
      
   RW>On Sat 2012-Apr-21 13:20, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
   RW>RW>EV> At another Navy Ham Shack they had a National NC-303(?) receiver and   
   RW>RW>EV> a T-350-XM AM transmitter (700 Watts I think).   
      
   RW>EV> Richard, it may had been a NC-300, it's been fifty years ago, and   
   RW>EV> Ed's Head gets confused often when remembering things.   
      
   When I looked through my old catalogs I looked at what the National   
   NC-303 and the NC-300 looked like, and could tell that the receiver was   
   a NC-300 that was in the Navy Ham Shack in 1960.   
      
   RW>Yeah, I asked about that rcvr someone who was quite active   
   RW>back then in that shack, she says it was a 303 at school for the blind.   
      
   You All got the Better One!   
      
   RW>EV> Those 866 Mercury Vapor Rectifiers wouldn't like it if I'd pressed   
   RW>EV> the Circuit Breaker Reset Button while the Power Switch was ON.   
      
   RW>Nope, they sure wouldn't.  You'd sure let the magic smoke   
   RW>out of 'em doing that.   
      
   I learned a long time ago that Electronic Devices run on Smoke that is   
   stored inside each of the many individual parts in the box.   
   And that everything works just fine until one of the parts developes a   
   Leak and the Smoke gets released into the air.   
      
   RW>RW>EV> The panel was approximately five foot high and 15 inches wide and   
   RW>RW>EV> was made of Steel.   
      
      
   RW>Yep, sounds about right for some of that old gear.  Operated the old Viking   
   I   
   RW>etc. as well.  Noted your comment   
   RW>elsewhere on that tx, 500 watts cw, about 350 am.   
      
   IIRC, that was the Johnson Viking 500 instead of the Viking II.   
      
   I saw a 500 once and found out it that what I saw on the top of the desk   
   in the Ham Shack was only half of it, on the floor there was a box about   
   the same size for the 500's Power Supply and maybe a Plate Modulator for   
   AM transmission (?).   
      
      
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