[ARC5] What is a TS-306/ARW? ARW-19 transmitter

[Mike Hanz]

Sounds sorta like the GWY series: http://aafradio.org/sidebar/GWY/GWY-2.html

On 3/24/2013 8:33 AM, Mike Everette wrote:
> More on the ARW-19 transmitter.... The rig had an 807 or 1625 final, I can't remember which (probably 1625), and had the overall "look" to its components of a Link 35-UFM land mobile transmitter; the interstage transformers, final tank coil and PA tuning cap were especially "Link-ish."  (Somewhere I may still have a few of these parts, who knows.)  I never saw a manual for it, but would guess the original frequency range was something like 30-44 mc, same as the 35-UFM.  There were four meters, all square types, on the front panel, arranged in a square pattern.  One was an 0-1 or thereabouts RF ammeter; another was for plate current, another for final grid current and I can't remember what the fourth one was.
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> The transmitter was built on an aluminum chassis and the panel was maybe a foot square or so; the depth of the chassis was perhaps 14-15 inches.  The unit had originally been painted black wrinkle, but this one was stripped to bare metal.  All panel markings were engraved or stamped.  The transmitter did not, I think, have an internal dynamotor like the Link land mobile gear did; or, if it possibly once had one the dyno was long gone by the time I got it.
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> The transmitter was AM; its original round-can modulation transformer had been removed because the Chikin Bander I got it from thought "a tone transformer is no good for voice."  Hmmm. Yeah, sure. (All the tone modulation circuitry was also stripped out, of course.)  It had been replaced by a small (maybe 10 watt) Stancor transformer.  I think the modulator tubes were a pair of 6V6s, if I remember right.
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> I've only ever seen one other ARW-19 transmitter; it was in a surplus store back in the early 60s, probably the same place the one I had originally came from.  Anyone else ever seen one of these?