The chances are that many of you will have made an FM “bug” style transmitter, a simple one-transistor oscillator usually driven by a small electret microphone. It’s also relatively straightforward to ...

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On July 22, 2025, Radio World republished one of my articles from October 25, 2011. The title was, “Rebuild That Relic of an AM Transmitter.” The idea of the article is to keep an old tube-type AM ...

A standard early electronics project or kit has for many years been the construction of a small broadcast transmitter with enough power to reach the immediate area, but no further. These days that ...