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

[Mike Everette]

Yes, it does look awfully familiar.  Been a lot of years ago, but I still remember some of the details.

The antenna connector was an SO-239, but that could have been changed.

I may remember that the ARW-19 had a turn-handle in the middle of the panel that locked the chassis into the case, but I'm not exactly sure of that.

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Sun, 3/24/13, Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org> wrote:

> From: Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] What is a TS-306/ARW? ARW-19 transmitter
> To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013, 1:58 PM
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 been replaced by a small (maybe 10 watt) Stancor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.
> >
> > 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?
> 
> 
> 
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