It was designed as an airbourn transmitter; one with more 'umpf' than the ARC stuff.So, the 'shorter frequencies mean shorter antenas.......... But.... there is an LF mod/add on for the'13... xtal controll.... cant remember what else;
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I believe the LF/MF oscillator/whatever-it-was only covered something like 300 or 500 kc up to 1500 kc, so there is a gap from 1500 to 2000 kc that it still wouldn't cover. The ART-13 was originally designed for the navy, and 2000 to 18000 kc was pretty much what all of their transmitters were designed to cover. My GO-9, which is claimed to be the largest airborne transmitter the navy had (three sections: MF TX, rectifier, and HF TX, total weight of all three is approx. 120 pounds), covers 3000 to 18000 kc, I wish it did go down to 2000 kc to try and get it down into 160, would be a lot more useful than having the higher frequency coverage.