{"id":53661,"date":"2022-08-13T06:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T10:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53661"},"modified":"2022-08-13T06:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T10:39:36","slug":"the-amt-mw207-mini-am-radio-transmitter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-amt-mw207-mini-am-radio-transmitter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"The AMT-MW207 mini AM radio transmitter kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53663\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AMT-MW207-624x624.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Frans Goddijn, who shares the following video demonstrating the AMT-MW207: a tiny $25 mediumwave transmitter kit that can be purchased on AliExpress:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Et3L4Xfb760?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the AMT-MW207 is not designed to be a whole house AM transmitter like <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/review-of-the-sstran-amt3000-am-transmitter-kit\/\">the SSTran<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n<p>The seller describes it as a device to debug and test AM receivers. Since it only employs a built-in bar antenna, the transmitter would need to be placed in close proximity to the receiver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/item\/3256804009890176.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on AliExpress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, Frans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who shares the following video demonstrating the AMT-MW207: a tiny $25 mediumwave transmitter kit that can be purchased on AliExpress: To be clear, the AMT-MW207 is not designed to be a whole house AM transmitter like the SSTran and others. The seller describes it as a device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,344,433,3],"tags":[8479,9925,9762,4099],"class_list":["post-53661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-kits","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-am-transmitter","tag-amt-mw207","tag-frans-goddijn","tag-mediumwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dXv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57493,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/frans-improves-connections-to-his-hurricane-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":53661,"position":0},"title":"Frans improves connections to his Hurricane Transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"August 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: Here\u2019s a little follow up on what I did earlier with the little Hurricane transmitter. https:\/\/youtu.be\/-MRY2ug13Oc Click here to view on YouTube. 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Thanks for sharing!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Funny&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Funny","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/funny\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Franz-FM-Christmas-Tree-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Franz-FM-Christmas-Tree-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Franz-FM-Christmas-Tree-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Franz-FM-Christmas-Tree-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Franz-FM-Christmas-Tree-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":58603,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/frans-spots-radios-in-the-royal-tenenbaums\/","url_meta":{"origin":53661,"position":4},"title":"Frans spots radios in The Royal Tenenbaums","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who spotted the radio gear above in the The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). 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