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As others have warned, attempting to put this thing on the air for its original purpose (running an AM broadcast station) would bring you serious legal trouble. Only way to use it as-is would be to acquire a licensed broadcast station. FCC only accepts new construction permit applications during an "application window". They haven't had a window for AM Broadcast since 2004 and are not likely planning another one.
Last I knew, licensed radio amateurs could modify equipment intended for other services if they can do it while meeting strict spurious emission requirements (Part 97 may be the only service where this is still true). If you were to modify it for the 160m band (1800-2000 kHz) by reducing the inductance in the coils, you could run the full kilowatt in CW (Morse code), but you would have to lower the power to about 375 watts when running AM phone (since this will produce 1500 watts at peak modulation).
80m (3500-4000 kHz) has much more activity than 160, and propagates further out at night, but your transmitter would need more drastic surgery - new tuning circuits in every stage.
One possibility is that you could sell it to a licensed ham who wants to put it on the air. (Check current regs first, it's been awhile since I was on the bands).
Last edited by Robert Grant; 03-30-2016 at 09:27 PM.
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