“All we have to do is reverse these two tubes, change these terminals….”

One of Sergeant Bilko’s men converts an Ecophone shortwave radio into a 2-way

set to transmit betting instructions to one of his men at a horse race track.

Episode 95, “Bilko the Genius”,  at Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXZyhFSEX5I

I thought it was pretty darn funny, just as i did back in the 1950s !

And YES, you can pretty easily convert any superhet receiver into a transmitter, using

just pliers if that’s all you have, but….it won’t reach as far as the race track !

-Hue Miller