ART-13 Mod Tranny Change
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2025
- The Collins ART-13 Transmitter is a classic WWII Aircraft Set that Amateurs have used for over 70 years. Mine is a main station transmitter. But I lost the modulation transformer last week! No AM!
The coolest transmitter ever made. I imagine you've impressed more than one visitor with its capabilities.
Collins was showing off putting so much capability in a fairly light compact but reparable box!
I recall an old War Two vet from my youth named Compton who had all kinds of old tube radios like this. Nothing in the world like old tube radios. The ambience, the total sensory input from being around all that old gear, the heat, the smells, and the lurking danger of high voltage that both terrified and fascinated me. He loaned me a tube receiver for my first ham radio experience. I never dared take the novice test because in those days, the Novice ticket was good for one year and then it was either up to a General or out; the Novice ticket could not be renewed. I mastered 5 wpm in the Boy Scouts but 13 wpm seemed impossible to my 12 year old self. I love the old tube gear. Good to see it is still being kept alive.
Same story with me, I got into Ham radio as a hobby 5 years ago and at the age of 70. 73's🎙KD9OAM🎧
Beautiful unit. My Father was a Radar Engineer and Ammatuer radio operator, When Dad was on his rig, I would put on my headphones and scan the bands on an old BC-348 which was hooked upto a long wire receiver antenna.
I loved listening to WWV in Ft.Collins , Co, I really really miss those days. Speaking of vacuum tubes, my Father had a B&W one kilowatt linear, it was a two piece set up, I want to say the linear was the B&W LPA-1 ????... can't remember but the linear used two 813's which Dad had a huge supply of those tubes donated by Lockheed Aircraft...lol The power supply had four mercury vapor rectifiers (866's)???... can't really remember the rectifier tube numbers but I can remember when Dad was transmitting, His whole ham shack would be showered in a Beautiful cobalt blue light and I thought that was the greatest thing since sliced bread!.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing with us!!🤠👍🎙⚡️
I like to listen to CHU and had a radio tuned to it during the hamfest. The neighbor ham across said - Turn that thing off!
@@MIKROWAVE1 Thanks for the reply. What is CHU? Iam not familiar with it .
@@UDX4570PalmSprings-yh1mv CHU is a time service like WWV that Canada maintains. Listen for it on 3.330 MHz and 7.850 MHz.
Nice work Mike. I used to know some guys in Santo Domingo who would rewind the original mod transformer for you. 73 Bill
What a great looking rig! You're right, the auto tune feature is pretty impressive. Thanks for sharing this with us. I hope I can hear you on the air on SCREAM modulated YAY- M! Take care and 73.
Oh its happy now and the new tranny is working fine.
Just wanted to say Nice meeting with you at near-fest and talking AN/GRC-9/T-17 Mic conversions.....Love the ART-13! noticed Ross W1EKG been to his shop many times.. matter of fact bought my AN/PRC-47 from him at near-fest about 8 years ago.73'jim KB1PFL
I need to fire up my AN/GRC-9! Great to meet you Jim!
Aboard my first ship, they had me field change and align every AN/R390 in radio one. It was nice to see one in your shack.
73's 🎙KD9OAM🎧
Never thought I would ever own one. Then in 1992 everyone got layed off and suddenly 6 of them came though for short money. I fixed them up and sold them for 125 bucks each. Hee.
@@MIKROWAVE1 I wonder how much you could find a decent one for these days? It's too hard for me to walk a hamfest these days in any case. Love your channel, this is how ham radio was meant to be.
@AdamosDad I am seeing boatanchors going lower again. This time, the reason is aging hams wanting to lighten the load. They are coming down to realistic prices again equivalence to my $125 in 1992, so 250 to 350 bucks my estimate.
@@MIKROWAVE1 Thanks for the response, at those prices I will start looking again. There is no sense in deep sixing a Collins radio.
I had a Viking2 that had an ART13 modulation transformer in it...
You do find them in strange places, and they work at embarrassingly high power levels!
Love that ART-13!
My main TX and always dependable - well almost always!
Very nice! I have the Hallicrafters BC610-E. I would love to see you do an info video on one of those. Finding information like this is getting hard to find. Thanks for sharing!
My buddy has one. Maybe a visit to his shack for a video.
@@MIKROWAVE1 That would be fantastic! Mine is suffering from the Talkback problem some have had. But its a neat transmitter with some history!
I eventually need to have mine restored
Mine had a wire harness short that had to be troubleshot before I could do anything.
Is there a possibility there a possibility the open screen winding could be repaired? Is there any transformer manufacture, that could costume make a replacement?
Wow - maybe if you were capable of breathing in the fumes!?! The transformer is still good to go for many projects- even missing the screen winding.
Mike, we'd still like a video about your command set modulator. 😒
Good idea. Lets do that.
10:20 We got a bleeder!
Bleeders do save embarrassment - especially when you are on the air and touch something in the cabinet of the radio that is on the bench and OFF.
1945 ?????? wow so different sir
Collins wanted to own the aircraft radio market post war.