Transmitters

Casting photons hither & yon into the ether, seeking my friends, and making new ones...

Transmitters are to hams like an engine is to a car: you still have a car without it, but you're not gonna do much! It takes an engine to make a car go, just as it takes a transmitter to fully interact with the world as a radio amateur.

The transmitters presented in this section are a cross section in time of the art of the radio transmitter. They have always done the same thing: literally sending photons across the street or across the world, to be received by someone and converted from little bundles of energy into a recognizable audio signal. What a great idea Mr. Marconi had.

Allied/Knight:	T-50
	T-60
	T-150
	T-150-A
	V-44 VFO
	V-107 VFO
Central Electronics	CE-200-V
R.L. Drake:	2NT	Crystal-controlled
R.L. Drake:	T4X-C
E.F. Johnson:	Ranger I	kit! (to be assembled)
E.F. Johnson:	Ranger II	MINT condition!!
EICO:	720
	722 VFO
	723
ETO-Alpha	78	Amplifier 3 x 8874s Fully Broadbanded "No tune"
Galaxy:	HG-303	Crystal-controlled
Galaxy:	V-10 VFO	Matches HG-303 styling
Gonset	GSB-100	Phasing SSB-CW
Hallicrafters:	See Hallicrafters TX pg
Hammarlund:	HX-50	80-10M SSB-CW
Hammarlund:	HXL-1	Amplifier 2 x 572-B
Harvey-Wells	TBS-50-D	Bandmaster Deluxe
JRC	NSD-515	Transmitter, matches the NRD-515
Lysco	600-S	VFO-Transmitter, single 807
Millen:	90800	6L6 to 807 50W
	90810	2-6M, 10M
	90700	Vari-arm VFO
National	NCL-2000	Amplifier 80-10M pair of 8122s in G-G
RACAL	MA-79 Driver Unit	Perfect match for the RA-17
SBE	SBE-LA	Amplifier matching the SBE-33 - See Transceivers for the SBE-33-34-36
Ten Tec	Model 200 VFO	Stand-alone 80-10M... very rare!!
WRL:	Globe Scout Deluxe

This is a Globe Electronics HG-303. I found a NEW one along with a NEW V-10 VFO. Amazing. This was surely one of the last-if not the last-CW-only, crystal controlled transmitters designed. The VFO matches the transmitter styling.

The Harvey-Wells Bandmaster Deluxe Model TBS-50D is one of my favorite transmitters. Very nice looking, and-with its 6AQ5 > 6AQ5 > 807 final, a solid medium power unit. It uses 2 6L6s in a Class B modulator. Manufactured between 1950-1955, it sold for a list price of ~$112.00. The power supply is external to the unit, and it requires an external VFO. Harvey-Wells made a matching VFO, but I have not been able to obtain one-yet. Click on the photo for the 800 x 600 version.

This transmitter matches the RA-17C, and appears physically identical to me. Running 100mW output, it has the same 6 foot long 35mm film kHz dial & Barlowe-Wadley Loop. All mode, it weighs 67 lbs! I like to think of it as one of the world's heaviest QRPp rigs!!

This is a kit from the Italian company, Geloso, I recently acquired on that e-place. I believe it was originally offered in the early 1960's. It is everything you need for a very nice 6CL6-buffered VFO. Ought to make a pretty good QRP rig all by itself. I will probably set it up with a 6V6 driving an 807-building in the ability to run it VERY barefoot right out of the 6CL6 (or the 6V6-depending on who develops 5W output.) Click for the 800 x 600 photo.