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|    Message 95 of 2,531    |
|    Ed Vance to MARK LEWIS    |
|    Boat Anchors    |
|    25 Apr 12 14:03:00    |
      ML>RW>EV> At another Navy Ham Shack they had a National NC-303(?) receiver and       ML>RW>EV> a T-350-XM AM transmitter (700 Watts I think).              ML> EV> Richard, it may had been a NC-300, it's been fifty years ago, and       ML> EV> Ed's Head gets confused often when remembering things.              ML>wasn't that a TV show? no... sorry, i'm thinking of that max hEaDroom show       )       ML>:LOL:              Mark, Please see My comment below.              ML> EV> I mounted the Reset Button of those Circuit Breakers through a hold       ML> EV> so the button could be pressed just by leaning over and pressing       ML> EV> it.              ML> EV> Of course the was after turning the Power Switch to OFF.              ML> EV> Those 866 Mercury Vapor Rectifiers wouldn't like it if I'd pressed       ML> EV> the Circuit Breaker Reset Button while the Power Switch was ON.              ML>no way! we're not talking about "BOOM town" are we? ;)              ML>)\/(ark              You watched too much Television haven't You?              I got to tell You this story.              One day when I was standing around watching the Electronic Technicians       (ET) repair a Radar System on the ship I was on.       The ETs would take some measurements with their Volt Meter and have to       turn the power off to replace something.              When the power was turned back on, there was a Motorized Timer circuit       to first turn on the Filaments of the tubes and then later to allow the       High Voltage to be switched on. (Quite a bit later)              Of course this was to protect the Mercury Vapor Rectifier tubes.              Then the ETs would find something else that wasn't working so they had       to shut down the power again, change a part, turn the power back on.              I was a Radioman not a ET, so I wasn't taking part in the repairs to the       Radar System, I just thought that maybe I could learn something from       watching the ETs at work.              About the 4th time they had to turn the power off I decided to go do       something else. (I was off watch when I was Gee-Gawking at the ETs)                      * SLMR 2.1a #T348 * SENILITY is so much FUN!!! :-) :-)       --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux        * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)    |
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