{"id":4770,"date":"2022-06-24T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/24\/w8zap-on-40-am-with-a-collins-20v3-broadcast-transmitter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:28","slug":"w8zap-on-40-am-with-a-collins-20v3-broadcast-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/24\/w8zap-on-40-am-with-a-collins-20v3-broadcast-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"W8ZAP on 40 AM with a Collins 20V3 Broadcast Transmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/W8ZAP204F40_4DCA_A465_B361529B7E1B_jpeg.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"900\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/W8ZAP204F40_4DCA_A465_B361529B7E1B_jpeg.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>I was on 40 AM yesterday morning and I talked to Jerry W8ZAP (great callsign) out in Michigan. Jerry was running his Collins 20V3 (above on the right), which was originally an AM broadcast band transmitter. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Here is Jerry&#8217;s QRZ.com page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W8ZAP\">https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W8ZAP<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>More info on the 20V3: <a href=\"https:\/\/collinsaerospacemuseum.org\/products\/product_sheets\/20V-3%20AM%20Transmitter%20Product%20Sheet.pdf\">https:\/\/collinsaerospacemuseum.org\/products\/product_sheets\/20V-3%20AM%20Transmitter%20Product%20Sheet.pdf <\/a><\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on 40 AM yesterday morning and I talked to Jerry W8ZAP (great callsign) out in Michigan. Jerry was running his Collins 20V3 (above on the right), which was originally an AM broadcast band transmitter. FB. Here is Jerry&#8217;s QRZ.com page: https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/W8ZAP More info on the 20V3: https:\/\/collinsaerospacemuseum.org\/products\/product_sheets\/20V-3%20AM%20Transmitter%20Product%20Sheet.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,130,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-am","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}