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)


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