GREAT ALLEN! YOU (we) are the future of VHF AM. Stay with it. There ARE many of us out here with 6m AM capability who just need a NUDGE to get on the air more often!
I think if more of us talked it up on the internet there would be a ton more activity and maybe even start some new nets! I would be willing to get involved. ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE??? Hailing DC, VA, MD, FLORIDA!!! CQ CQ CQ CQ 6m AM!! I will be on 50.4 MHz calling CQ and listening to your calls this weekend! 73s from AF4K, Brian On 3 Oct 2005 at 20:51, Allen Jones wrote: > Here in northwest Indiana there is very little 6M AM > activity. This Spring I bought a very nice Ameco > TX-62 along with an Ameco CB-6 converter which I feed > into my Heathkit SB-301. I have worked only two AM > stations within a 100 mile radius and some Es into the > East coast using 4 elements at 65'. > > I am less than 40 miles from Chicago and this area had > a tremendous amount of 6 and 2M AM activity in the > 60's and early 70's. The Heath factory was only 30 > miles from here accounting for much of the activity in > SW lower Michigan. I sometimes wonder what happened > to all those Gonsets, Heathkits, Clegg, Hallicrafters, > Johnson and others. Are they sitting in a basement or > dusty garage or rusting away in a landfill. > > How may of you guys remember the Heath VHF-1 Seneca? > You could easily identify one from the carrier > controlled modulation. I have a really nice one that > I plan to get going one of these days. I also have a > Clegg 99er and a 66er. Plenty of AM gear (SSB too) > but little AM activity sad to say. > > 73 > > Allen, W9DZ > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com >
