[ARC5] value of art-13 LF VFO

[Fuqua, William]

  Our club rules require all items must be sold by public auction.

So I can't work out sales to individuals. Thus far I have found 4 and

but I have not gotten back to see which models they are but I believe there

are two different types. Both go up to 1500kHz. We have tons of items

to dispose of.


  73

Bill wa4lav


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From: Robert Downs <wa5cab at cs.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:50 AM
To: Fuqua, William; ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [ARC5] value of art-13 LF VFO


Bill,



There were two LF/MF VFO’s for the ATC and AN/ART-13.  The older one was O-16/ART-13 which covered 200 to 1500 KC.  The later one was O-17/ART-13A which covered 200 to 600 KC.



I have no basis for assigning a value today but have sold a few of them in the past.  I sold the last O-16 that I had for $35.00 in 2000.   I sold seven O-17’s over the period 1999 thru 2015 for prices that ranged from $35 to $45.00 except that I once sold two of them at once for $60.



As you mentioned, besides the LFO, you must have an outboard tuning unit to tune the transmitter to work at any frequency below 2000 KC.  With those two units, putting one of the transmitters on 500 KC should be plug-n-play.  Getting on 160 Meters with either unit required some modifications.  Years ago, someone who I think was on this list worked up the procedure for using the O-17 to get on 160.  I may still have a copy of the instructions from which about all that I recall is that it required a tunable coil out of one of the HF VFO’s.  I still have several of the HF VFO’s.



Robert Downs



From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fuqua, William
Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2018 20:46
To: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ARC5] value of art-13 LF VFO



  Some ART-13s and ART-13 LF and HF VFOs have been donated to our club.

Does any one have any idea of value of the LF VFO.  If you have a ART-13 you can transmit

down as low as 200kHZ with the LF VFO and a LF antenna coupler. I found it interesting.

When you switch to the LF VFO the other stages are bypassed and it feeds the 813 directly.



73

Bill wa4lav
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