[ARC5] Heathkit Folks: Early "Heath Company" Aircraft Transmitter.

David Stinson arc5 at ix.netcom.com
Sat Nov 26 06:24:56 EST 2011


I've recently got this little gem working, though it 
was pretty much operational from the start:

http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/HeathHT4B3.jpg

It's a Heath Company HT-4-B3 HF aircraft trasmitter
and is in excellent shape. 
Designed to work with one of the 90V - 1.5V
battery packs, it puts out a mighty .6 watts and 
sounds great.  I've got a 3890 KC xtal in the "AUX" slot.
You wouldn't think you could light that "Output"
indicator light with .6 watts, but you can. 
And it even tunes a 50-ohm load ;-).

Does anyone have any documentation on this little rig?
Is there a "correct" receiver that mates with it?
I'll put my 100W "footwarmer" behind this and 
check into the local AM nets.  That would be a hoot!

TNX ES 73 DE Dave AB5S




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