[MRCA] In Search of TCZ Technical Documentation

[Nick England]

I have a manual and will scan it.good luck!

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 9:57 AM Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Good morning and Happy New Year.  I’ve recently been recruited by Ken
> Carr, one of the Board of Directors at the New England Wireless and Steam
> Museum in East Greenwich RI, to assist the volunteers of the radio side
> gang in restoring to operating conditon a Navy TCZ transmitter, the
> shipboard variant of the ART-13.  The museum apparently has at least one
> ART-13 and several of the TCZ motor generator/rectifier power supplies that
> the transmitter sits on top of in the shipboard configuration.  Either a
> link to an online tech manual or a source of a hard copy would be a good
> start.  Brown, I recall you may have had (and perhaps still do have) a TCZ
> at Fort Burnside.  If I recall correctly, the power supply consists of an
> AC powered motoe  generator vice a dynamotor to generate the 400V and 1100V
> DC required for low and high B plus, and a transformer and rectifiers to
> make the 28 VDC for the tube filaments, relay control, and auto tune motor
> power.  At any rate it looks like a fun project and it would be great to
> have an ART-13 on the air from the museum.
>
> Maybe we might some day be able to rig it up to a steam powered AC
> generator set and have a real steampunk station on the air from there
> during Steam Up.
>
> 73 de Chris AJ1G
> Stonington CT
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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