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I was not aware that transmitters needed FCC approval to be used on ham bands. Sold specifically for ham band use, commerically, yes.
They just need to meet the requisite power and bandwidth rules. As far as AM goes, I hear AM all the time on 80 and 40 meters, and even on 160 meters at times. A broadcast band transmitter of say 1 or 2 kW or less, if not specifically designed for only the lower parts of the band, should be easy to get to work around 1.9 MHz. It would be crystal controlled, of course, but any competant builder could build a tube or transistor buffer amp to take output from a synthesizer or VFO and use it to feed the nominal crystal oscillator. If the transmitter did not have a built-in audio limiter with essential bandwidth filter, a simple external filter would satisfy the bandwidth requirment. If it did have that, the internal audio filter would need serious modification. Somebody should take this transmitter and do it! |
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Unless someone wants to use it as an AM broadcast band rig in the future there's nothing wrong converting it to a ham band.
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Well you could build/buy a shielded dummy load for it and use it as a overly complicated room heater. and if only 100mw of power leaks out, you could use it to broadcast to your vintage radio collection. Yeah ok that might be easier said than done.
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It's perfectly legal to operate that transmitter on 160 meters as long as it's kept under the legal power limit and operated by a General class or above operator. There's plenty of hams who regularly run modified AM broadcast transmitters (they're actually pretty popular).
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