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 ...

[Mr. Carlson] bought a Globe Scout Model 40A ham radio transmitter at a hamfest. The 40A was a grand old transmitter full of tubes, high voltage, and a giant transformer. It is really interesting to ...

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 ...