Broadcast Like It's 1940! Review of AMT-MW207 AM Transmitter!

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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

Комментарии • 106

  • @Recordology
    @Recordology  14 дней назад +13

    I might’ve been a bit optimistic on the range… I think it’s more like 10 to 15 feet. Definitely designed to be as close to the radio as possible, which shouldn’t be a problem in most cases.

    • @thevalleybc
      @thevalleybc 14 дней назад

      that's literally the only question I had lol. I went to leave a comment to get an answer and ..bam here it is. look forward to every video. great channel! thanks man.

    • @pancudowny
      @pancudowny 14 дней назад +1

      Don't feel bad... as even when using a household/building-wide antenna system, for wireless broadcast of RF video signals, the effective range is surprisingly short with even the most powerful consumer-level antenna add-on signal boosters employed.

    • @force311999
      @force311999 14 дней назад

      That's so it can be legal I have an SS tran one that can do 100 feet but it had to be sold as a kit

    • @eddieboggs8306
      @eddieboggs8306 11 дней назад

      Walmart sells a FM transmitter that carries around 25 feet. It takes two double A batteries. I plug it into my phone and play music over the radio. I also plug into my CD player and play music on my car. Car has a CD player that went out. Q

  • @CraiginOhioUSA
    @CraiginOhioUSA 14 дней назад +10

    My first car, which I got in 1982, was a 1972 AMC that only had AM radio. I used an AM transmitter in the car, attached to the headphone output (very low) of a cassette player. Later in life, I figured out what you are doing now- giving new life to old tube radios.
    Excellent video!

  • @danielarnold9466
    @danielarnold9466 14 дней назад +27

    I built an AM transmitter as a Radio Shack educational Mod-U-Kit back around late 1960's. Really cool and these kits were a big part of getting me interested in electronics. The kits were pretty basic and not high audio quality but it worked. And at that time it cost (I think) around $8-10. Pity Radio Shack isn't around any more to foster young imaginations.

    • @bigsky1970
      @bigsky1970 14 дней назад +1

      I remember those too and I built the AM transmitter in the book that came with the kit. It too didn't have much range. The signal dropped off on the little pocket radio I had, the moment I would walk out the bedroom door.

    • @davidsradioroom9678
      @davidsradioroom9678 13 дней назад +4

      I built an AM transmitter from scratch, with the schematic out of a book. Had a lot of fun with it.

  • @RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
    @RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb 13 дней назад +3

    Great video! I have an AM Transmitter and an FM Transmitter and use them to play my music library from my laptop to my radios. I pulled the trigger on the AM transmitter after having an antique RCA Globe Trotter recapped and serviced and wanted SOMETHING to listen on it other than political talk, sports talk, religious talk! I looked at the model you reviewed here but opted with with that could cover my entire house and not have to have the radio right on top of it.

  • @SWIZZRADIOS
    @SWIZZRADIOS 12 дней назад +2

    Above all, vintage CB/HAM radios and antennas are a passion of mine. The 60/70s were a wonderful time: grand CB parties, free from smartphones and Instagram profiles. Happy-2025 and best 73 to you and yours...

  • @TheJoyofVinylRecords
    @TheJoyofVinylRecords 14 дней назад +4

    THis is REALLY cool! I've been looking for something like this. We have a couple of old tube radios from the 1940s/1950s that still work, and we've always wanted to play old radio shows through them (like The Shadow, Inner Sanctum, etc).

  • @jeffreyhickman3871
    @jeffreyhickman3871 14 дней назад +4

    We surely need a blast back to the past. All AM has on it nowadays, is talk 👄 shows. Radio 📻 was so much better 😌, back in the 1970's. It was such a pleasure to turn on the radio, and sit down to an evening ball game 🏑. It would be so cool to broadcast as if it's the 1940's. Your friend, Jeff.

  • @Rick-c5s
    @Rick-c5s 3 дня назад

    I was just imagining recording a list classic Christmas songs with myself as an old time DJ, pretending it's 1958.... without telling my guests... then have a call in segment where I pretend to talk to my parents who've called into the program to make a request... How long can I go before someone catches on?? LOL... Thanks for introducing this product... It definitely brings out the radio ham in me!

  • @NicholasTobolski
    @NicholasTobolski 14 дней назад +13

    So long as it wouldnt bring the FCC to my door, I’m on board with this!

    • @ScottGrammer
      @ScottGrammer 14 дней назад

      The FCC has a yearly budget of about $17, so I wouldn't worry about it.

    • @Steven-re7xt
      @Steven-re7xt 14 дней назад +1

      Never really had a problem I go to 530 in the area Cuba is found on I also find casual music. ha ha. It's in a area about a mile away. So I'm ok hihi. If I cover my lot.

    • @MrBillmcminn
      @MrBillmcminn 13 дней назад +2

      There’s no need for worry, these transmitters are FCC part 15 compliant. Part 15 is a provision that allows license free low power short range transmitting devices.

    • @paulstubbs7678
      @paulstubbs7678 13 дней назад

      As long as you don't add an RF booster amp, so your mater down the road can hear, you should be good

    • @davidsradioroom9678
      @davidsradioroom9678 13 дней назад +2

      With that low power, I am certain it is legal. The FCC allows up to 100 milliwatts from one of these transmitters.

  • @EI6DP
    @EI6DP 13 дней назад +2

    I built the same one from a kit. They are brilliant.

  • @audiobuff77
    @audiobuff77 10 дней назад

    This is something I have been looking for! I have a few vintage radios that I would like to play music through. Now if I could just get them working again :) This device would also work well in a vintage car with an existing AM radio. You could play oldies from your phone and listen like its 1965! Or 1975...

  • @TorontoJon
    @TorontoJon 14 дней назад +1

    That AM transmitter is really cool, Record-ology. I bought a portable battery-powered FM transmitter for $12 about 25 or more years ago from a dollar store, but obviously, an FM transmitter would be useless for vintage radios from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s which is why that AM transmitter you demonstrated is such a great gadget. :)

  • @DoodiePunk
    @DoodiePunk 14 дней назад +2

    This is great to simulate the sound with its noise in historical movies! 💝

  • @bennetfox
    @bennetfox 12 дней назад +1

    Add a simple 4 channel mixer to your AM transmitter and you can have a full-blown radio station complete with mics and music inputs!

  • @Rebel9668
    @Rebel9668 14 дней назад +1

    I do basically the same thing. I have an old Microsoft Zune loaded with period music and old radio shows plugged in to a "Talking House" AM transmitter. I'm not sure how many watts it is, but it will broadcast well enough to receive the signal out in my garage or in my driveway, or back yard, not to mention all over the house. I like to use it on my antique radios for that nostalgic feel. They have them on ebay starting at around $65.00 and up.
    I do also have a small "pocket size" transmitter, but it almost has to be sitting atop of the radio to get good reception with it. I find that on my console sets that there is usually room on the shelf that the chassis sits on in the back of the radio to set the small unit on and I can just put it's little antenna wire on the fahnestock clip on the radio.
    Both of my units are equipped with wall warts for their power supply, though the small one can be run on 1 9v battery.

  • @Lancedsanders
    @Lancedsanders 12 дней назад +1

    I have the AMT3000 & it is fantastic.

  • @SkiBumMSP
    @SkiBumMSP 13 дней назад

    I've seen these before. It is a neat way to get use out of vintage radios. One use case would be to be able to transmit music from my audio rig to the old AM receiver I have down in my basement workshop. I may have to look into this.

  • @johnmarchington3146
    @johnmarchington3146 14 дней назад +1

    My first thought was "I wonder if there is an FM equivalent?" The transmitter certainly looks nice and appears to work well. I wrote this before the video had finished and you answered my question. An FM transmitter demo would be interesting too.

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 14 дней назад

      FM versions should be relatively easy to find since they are still used in cars. Some will take an 1/8” jack.

  • @RayRay-mj6pn
    @RayRay-mj6pn 11 дней назад

    Nice you made this video. Im getting one. Just what I need to test my crystal radios that I build. The radio stations here are spotty sometimes. With this device I can check them right away. Thanks for the info.

  • @markmcnary1785
    @markmcnary1785 12 дней назад

    That transmitter device is cool. I have a Sony CD player that has a line out plug on it.

  • @Keithf1
    @Keithf1 12 дней назад +1

    2025 Bob Hope - "We are between fire seasons." "It ended last night and does not return until tomorrow."

  • @xXTheoLinuxXx
    @xXTheoLinuxXx 13 дней назад

    I have a spitfire am transmitter (FCC approved) and a collection of old radios (even before WWII) and it's way more fun to listen to old records this way than any way else. I like to compare it with a fireplace and central heating ;)

  • @oldradiotvsc9836
    @oldradiotvsc9836 14 дней назад

    Hey I have one of these (a slightly older generation of same product found on Ebay), and it works great! It's nice to play what I want on my old radios without having to modify the radio!

  • @mrdovie47
    @mrdovie47 13 дней назад

    I have an FM stereo module on my PC that sends my sound all through the house and even the small yard. I can listen to podcasts and go lay down and turn on my clock radio and follow the podcast all over, portable radios filling in here and there.

  • @jamest.5001
    @jamest.5001 12 дней назад

    You can stream music or whatever to a classic audio system with this device. This will be awesome in classic cars. You can possibly go to a car show or cruise. And play old music on AM radio, if someone can't hear it that well they can turn on their radio to hear it! Maybe add a better transmit antenna to it the device. To get maybe 50'-100' line of sight. That would be great. Maybe connect a linear amplifier to it used on cb radio, broadcast to a small town 😂... maybe get you in trouble? ✌️

  • @charlie_nolan
    @charlie_nolan 12 дней назад

    Some of the weird noises are because it was off frequency, as well as possible front-end overload (signal was overwhelming the receiver). When on frequency and with good signal strength, AM can sound just as good as FM or direct audio in

  • @joeleonard34
    @joeleonard34 5 дней назад

    I do something similar, I have a talking home transmitter connected to a raspberry pi, I use music on console which I can control from my phone. Something amazing about broadcasting your content

  • @vhm14u2c
    @vhm14u2c 12 дней назад

    I have an archer radio shack am radio broadcast kit I built in the 70s. It had about the same range, was /is around 30-100 feet.

  • @georgeprice4212
    @georgeprice4212 День назад

    With the Studebaker CD player, the best cd to try would be Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, as many of the songs flow into each other. Or even CD’s by The Moody Blues (1967-1972 era albums) for the same reason.

  • @drsysop
    @drsysop 12 дней назад

    You can add a 160 meter ham radio amplifier & boost the signal & get up to 10 miles of range or more but you need to use a proper antenna. AM radio is great at night as you can hear lots of foreign stations as well as pirate radio broadcasts around 1620-1700 kHz. -Cheers!

  • @markmarkofkane8167
    @markmarkofkane8167 14 дней назад +1

    Looks wonderful.

  • @arthurk99
    @arthurk99 12 дней назад

    I use a “Talking House” to do the same thing. I feed it with an Amazon Echo for voice controlled Spotify playback.

  • @Subgunman
    @Subgunman 12 дней назад

    Now for an AM Stereo transmitter! Yes they made stereo AM radios. I still have my old car radio from the late 80’s that has a stereo AM receiver and yes there was a station in my home town that was AM stereo.

    • @scotttodd3506
      @scotttodd3506 7 дней назад

      There are a few that are still out there. One of them is made by Aspyis in Greece.

  • @pancudowny
    @pancudowny 14 дней назад +1

    Recalling a video about playing 78's with as modern of needle-in-groove equipment possible, one wonders how rich in sound... and with warmth... playback of these songs would be using such a method in conjunction with a hybrid reproduction system, and speakers of contemporary design & materials.

  • @GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE
    @GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE 8 дней назад

    Cool I'll have to get one

  • @andjkh
    @andjkh 12 дней назад

    Old Sirius and XM radios pre 06 had some powerful transmitters, then the FCC stepped in.

  • @Subgunman
    @Subgunman 12 дней назад

    No problem finding a blank spot on the dial, there are no AM stations left on this island. Only thing we receive is QRM from the sub standard power grid.

  • @elliottlang9100
    @elliottlang9100 11 дней назад

    I love it!

  • @kensmith5694
    @kensmith5694 12 дней назад

    A slightly better procedure is to tune the radio to find a quite spot on the dial and then find it by adjusting the transmitter.
    It is also possible to transmit more than one station. This can be good in an old car or the like where you may not want to fiddle with the signal source.

  • @scotttodd3506
    @scotttodd3506 7 дней назад

    Several years ago on the Antique Radio Forum they had a number of plans for AM transmitters but using tubes. I ended up building one that used a 6GY6, but mine was heavily modified as I wanted to use it not only for entertainment but also to double as a piece of test equipment. It's got frequency response far in excess of even the best AM radios and you can hear it throughout the entire house, not just a few feet away. I also bought some 6888 tubes to build one of the other circuits but haven't gotten around to it yet. I figure if you're going to broadcast to tube radios why not use a tube transmitter to go along with it?

  • @radiotvphononut
    @radiotvphononut 14 дней назад

    Sometime back, I bought a cheap-o "no name" record player, FM radio, and USB player that will play content from a USB thumb drive. I could load a USB drive up with songs, plug the line out jacks on the record player into an AM transmitter, and the record player will play, at random, the tracks from the USB drive through the transmitter. Like many other areas, AM is nothing to write home about anymore, and something like this transmitter is a good way to feed desirable content to an old radio without having to modify the radio. About the only good I get out of AM is WSM and a station at 530 out of Cuba that plays "beautiful music." Of course, both of these can only be heard at night.

  • @Manticore1960
    @Manticore1960 13 дней назад

    Have you tried connecting a long wire to the "Monitor" connection for greater range?

  • @HarunBalabanElektronikHaberles
    @HarunBalabanElektronikHaberles 11 дней назад

    Basit iki adet 1 MHz e kadar inebilecek potansiyelde Transistör ve en az 300 tur sarımlı şok bobini ve ayar için 500pF Varyabl kondansatör ile bu kiti yapmak mümkün . Yanlız bu devrenin Radyo ile arasından en fazla 3 Metre uzaklaşabilirsiniz daha sonrasında çekmeyecektir , çünkü dalga boyu büyüktür ve anten boyu ve kitin gücü yetmediği için mesafe aşımında çalışmaz. Bu devrelerin en önemli özelliği 150 KHz ile 30 MHz arasındaki tüm frekanslara TX sağlayabilmesidir.

  • @gregorysharp
    @gregorysharp 14 дней назад

    Dude! I’m going to get ten of these and fill the full am band

    • @Recordology
      @Recordology  13 дней назад

      That would be a cool thing to do!

  • @Russell.S
    @Russell.S 14 дней назад

    another use case is those waterproof shower radios. Listen to audiobooks/podcasts streamed from the phone and broadcast to the shower radio. The catch is, what if your phone has no 1/8” output jack? These AM broadcast units could (should?) have a bluetooth receiver built-in to facilitate getting audio out of BT-enabled devices, all-in-one. Is there a way to attach an antenna to extend broadcast range (within FCC regulations, of course)?

  • @unclejoejoe3009
    @unclejoejoe3009 12 дней назад

    Does this come fully assembled or do you have to put it together yourself? The Amazon listing describes it as "DIY Circuit Board". Do It Yourself?

  • @r.dsvintagetuberadiotvsand3140
    @r.dsvintagetuberadiotvsand3140 14 дней назад +2

    those transmitters are cool the range isn't the best but the sound quality is good i like to use my talking house am transmitter with my cheap tube amp and cd changer hooked up to it to listen to my vintage radio shows on my restored 1939 zenith console radio and my other sets

  • @mustang64.55
    @mustang64.55 14 дней назад

    Thanks for another great video Just curious but have you reviewed the Victrola Montauk Bluetooth record player looked through your past videos and couldn't find it if you made one

  • @poetsdreamsatc
    @poetsdreamsatc 14 дней назад

    I was on a whatnot auction last year. This lady showed a box full of old radio and tv glass tubes. I bought them from her because she said she’d throw them out if no one bought them. I couldn’t bear for her to throw them out.
    Do you know anyone who needs old radio glass tubes?

  • @MorgoUK
    @MorgoUK 14 дней назад

    Just a quick question: Does the input to the transmitter combine the left and right channels of the output from the source? Or are you just listening to one channel? I suppose the audio you’re listening to was all mono anyway but what happens if you have a stereo output?

    • @kensmith5694
      @kensmith5694 12 дней назад

      Many old cassette players weren't stereo

    • @scotttodd3506
      @scotttodd3506 7 дней назад

      Most likely combines the two. There really was such a thing as AM stereo, but it's not common anymore. It was big from the mid 80s to mid 90s.

  • @MarzNet256
    @MarzNet256 14 дней назад

    Hello. Do you know where i can hookup my pico 2204A scope leads to get the am signal off the circuit? I built one of these on a breadboard about 8 years ago with my 8 year old son. It worked great. Just a modulator, audio transformer and 9V DC at a fixed frequency and audio input. Thanks.

    • @scotttodd3506
      @scotttodd3506 7 дней назад

      You wouldn't necessarily need to hook it anywhere on the transmitter. Just a few loops of wire around the transmitter should be good enough.

  • @MuzikJunky
    @MuzikJunky 14 дней назад

    Who did you hire to write and sing that Record-Ology jingle?! Peace.

  • @theblindredneck747
    @theblindredneck747 14 дней назад

    Another use case for this could be getting a clear signal from Internet feeds of a.m. radio stations.

  • @kjm-ch7jc
    @kjm-ch7jc 14 дней назад

    Some countries would need that transmitter to be licenced.

    • @marcse7en
      @marcse7en 12 дней назад

      With a range of just a FEW FEET?

  • @iceberg789
    @iceberg789 14 дней назад

    as long as the signal doesn't leave home premises.

  • @raysoucie489
    @raysoucie489 12 дней назад

    Play "War of the Worlds" and receive it on a 1937 Philco

  • @xaenon
    @xaenon 14 дней назад

    Gotta admit, I haven't heard AM described as 'high fidelity' in decades, lol.

    • @111000100101001
      @111000100101001 14 дней назад

      You need to hear AM stereo broadcast, received on a capable radio. It sounds amazing! Look up shango66 for his interview and tour of AM broadcast station, WION AM stereo, it’s truly amazing and is broadcasting as I type this :)

  • @mikekeech9718
    @mikekeech9718 14 дней назад

    I would try it with an 8track tape player.

  • @adamrichards3174
    @adamrichards3174 14 дней назад

    If you really wanted to be immersive, have a few of these transmitters going at different frequencies, then you could scan through the dial like you would have decades ago.

  • @patricknaville4564
    @patricknaville4564 12 дней назад

    Check out the FiiO DM-13.

  • @deanbrown1407
    @deanbrown1407 10 дней назад

    Amazon says they are "Currently Unavailable. ".

    • @Recordology
      @Recordology  10 дней назад +1

      They might be out of stock… Sometimes they come back with stock later… Also, there are several similar units on there

  • @barrydevonshire9749
    @barrydevonshire9749 13 дней назад

    In the Uk low power Fm transmitters are legal. But not low power AM transmitters. Be careful

    • @kensmith5694
      @kensmith5694 12 дней назад

      In the US nothing really is legal but the FCC doesn't tend to act on just random signals that are weak.

  • @883greatlakes
    @883greatlakes 5 дней назад

    Review the Micromitter

  • @andychow5509
    @andychow5509 12 дней назад

    Thanks. IMO the future is AM. AM digital with ECC.

  • @norbertharenz
    @norbertharenz 12 дней назад

    👍👍

  • @TrevorFiford-d6g
    @TrevorFiford-d6g 14 дней назад

    Don't you mean Quarter inch Mini Jack???

  • @brianbarker2551
    @brianbarker2551 14 дней назад

    That's wacky, a CD over AM to a 50s radio. Cool.

  • @talk2azs
    @talk2azs 12 дней назад +1

    Just get one of those illegal 7 to 25 Watt FM transmitters to broadcast a better pirate radio station. But who the heck still listens to AM or FM? It's all about Internet radio streaming in todays world. It's so easy to get started with Internet broadcasting, and it's FREE!!! I broadcast 10 internet stations and get an average of 5000 listeners per day. But in my case, I actually conform to the RIAA rules and pay royalty payments so the artists get paid for their work. My costs are relatively cheap per song, and I have a system where I can accurately calculate the royalties. But it's actually really easy to get away with this without paying anything at all. But my ethics prevent me from not paying royalties!!!

  • @TorontoJon
    @TorontoJon 14 дней назад

    LIKE number 30 which is kind of "perty". ;)

  • @darkobrankovic-el7gm
    @darkobrankovic-el7gm 14 дней назад

    Why is everybody ALWAYS saying LAD when it should be LED ? And no, my hearing is not impaired

  • @Ray_of_Light62
    @Ray_of_Light62 12 дней назад +1

    AM is mostly for voice, not music. The audio bandwidth is 300 - 4500 Hz, and there is no stereo capabilities.
    An FM transmitter is more suited for music, with a bandwidth of 100 - 12,000 Hz, with stereo modulation. You can't build a stereo FM transmitter - even if it is only 10 mW output - with three small transistors; you need a synthesized quartz oscillator, a stereo modulator (which creates and modulates the 19 KHz sub carrier), and one VHF output stage. This is more expensive than the device you showed in the video, which use a free oscillator and has no separate modulator (it can't modulated deeper than 50%)..
    Thank you for the nice video.
    Greetings,
    Anthony

    • @scotttodd3506
      @scotttodd3506 7 дней назад

      AM radio had far better fidelity than that back in the day. WLW used to have a transmitter that was good for at least 50Hz to 20kHz. Nowadays the FCC has limited it to 10kHz to limit interference to other stations since there are so many more on the air, but even that sounds pretty good if the radio has a wide enough response.

  • @MrSlipstreem
    @MrSlipstreem 12 дней назад

    And get arrested like it's 1930! That's probably what would happen in the UK anyway.

  • @IvyMusikkFM
    @IvyMusikkFM 14 дней назад

    It looks like some part to a computer

  • @FranciscoFlores-qh7hw
    @FranciscoFlores-qh7hw 11 дней назад

    No. Hay. Traductor. En. Español. Como. Leer. Los. Comentarios. Son. Importantes.

  • @horatioyen256
    @horatioyen256 14 дней назад

    Hm

  • @newtronix
    @newtronix 14 дней назад

    tThose modern cassette players have low quality mechanisms and heads. gGet yourself an old proper one.

    • @Recordology
      @Recordology  13 дней назад

      The Fiio and We Are Rewind and exceptional decks.

  • @daddydavey
    @daddydavey 13 дней назад

    I rarely say this,but...Neato 🤗❤️