[Boatanchors] A Gold mine of AM transmitters in everyones home town.

[W6OM]

In a world of $3,500 Viking 500's, $1,200 Turbo Rangers and $1,400 Globe 
Kings I must say thank you to many of you who talked me into acquiring and 
converting a commercial broadcast transmitter.  If you stop by QRZ.com and 
look up my call you can see what a Bauer 707 commercial transmitter 
converted for 75 meters AM looks like. Everything included,  I have spent 
less than the average cost for a Valiant which needs work.

More power than you can ever use, more modulation and presence than you can 
imagine and they are simple to convert to 75 meters.

A cheap function generator coupled with the oscillator (most are Hartley 
oscillators) works just fine as a VFO.

As more and more commercial broadcast stations move to HD Radio or solid 
state, they give these beautiful big boxes to anyone who will pick them up. 
I made the rounds of the local AM stations and found another one sitting in 
a warehouse destined for a landfill until I spoke up.

If you don't want to spend a lot of money but would like to have a big 
signal on 75 or 160 AM, stop by your local AM station, meet the engineer and 
see what kind of old transmitters they have sitting in the warehouse 
destined for the scrape pile.

Good Hunting!

Ron  W6OM

www.qsl.net/w6om
All the Best

Ron  W6OM

www.qsl.net/w6om