13939 MCW Transmitter


SPECIFICATIONS

Frequency range:  200 meter band (1500 KHz)
Type:  MCW transmitter
Power output: The MT3 tube had a plate dissipation of 40 watts so the RF outoput wouod have been kess than this amount.
Vintage: 1922
Enclosure: Mahogany case with hard rubber front panel

Costs:
Transmitter with tube $150
MT3 rube only $50
#406 transmitting key $5
Silicon bronze aerial wire -  84 cents per 100 feet
Electrose corrugated insulators -  55 cents  each

Comments. This transmitter was sold to both the commercial and amateur radio marketplace.

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13939 transmitter. 
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13939 schematic It looks like the RF signal is being modulated with 60 Hz from a secondary winding on the transformer to generate an MCW signal. . 
Images courtesy Scientific Experimenter Limited catalogue, February 1922

Contributors and Credits:
 

1) SEL Catalogue Feb 1922

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Mar 23/18