{"id":3169,"date":"2023-11-21T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/21\/mr-carlsons-art-13-transmitter-with-dynamotor\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:03","slug":"mr-carlsons-art-13-transmitter-with-dynamotor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/21\/mr-carlsons-art-13-transmitter-with-dynamotor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Carlson&#8217;s ART-13 Transmitter (with Dynamotor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6150Y4HURhM?si=cgn3saoKAj3MmrKV?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Here we have a really cool video from Mr. Carlson. In it he reveals (admits!) to what we already know: HE IS A HAM RADIO OPERATOR. FB Mr. C!<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>You can see that he is a true ham, with a true case of THE KNACK, when you see his reaction to the inside view of the ART-13. He seems to gasp as he notes that there is a lot of &#8220;RF goodness&#8221; in that box. There is a vacuum relay, a bread-slicer capacitor, there is even a variometer. And lots of good, big THERMATRONS. Only a true ham, a true Knack victim can recognize this RF goodness. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The Dynamotor that goes with this transmitter is really interesting to me. I have been hearing these things whining in the background (audible noise, not a signal defect) <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/a-great-morning-on-old-military-radio.html\">on many early morning (Saturday 3885 kHz) of the Old Military Radio Net<\/a>. I can often hear the dynamotor of Buzz W3EMD as he transmits from Rhinebeck, New York. It was great to see the inside of this device. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>B<\/b><b>ack in 2017, Hack-A-Day took a look at Dynamotors: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/07\/04\/retrotechtacular-dc-to-dc-conversion-rotary-style\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/07\/04\/retrotechtacular-dc-to-dc-conversion-rotary-style\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>There are several good ART-13\/BC-348 pictures on W3EMD&#8217;s QRZ page:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W3EMD\">https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W3EMD<\/a> <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I was especially taken by the handwritten frequency chart on the front panel of the ART-13. This reminded me a lot of the handwritten readout that I have been using on various rigs, including (most recently) the 15-10 SSB transceiver. I hope Paul focuses on this paper-and-pencil frequency chart; it is nice to step away a bit from the glowing numerals of San Jian. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Mr. C points out that the ART-13 was the transmitter that was paired up with the BC-348 receiver. He will be working on both in the weeks ahead. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Mr. Carlson. 73 OM. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have a really cool video from Mr. Carlson. In it he reveals (admits!) to what we already know: HE IS A HAM RADIO OPERATOR. FB Mr. C! You can see that he is a true ham, with a true case of THE KNACK, when you see his reaction to the inside view of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/21\/mr-carlsons-art-13-transmitter-with-dynamotor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Carlson&#8217;s ART-13 Transmitter (with Dynamotor)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,103,243,239,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carlson-mr","category-knack-stories","category-military-radios","category-the-knack","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}