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

[john]

I've seen a lot of radios over the past years of boatanchoring, but THAT is 
one of the coolest.  Congrats on getting it going Dave. Where did you find it?

73
John K5MO


At 06:24 AM 11/26/2011, David Stinson wrote:
>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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