hi Rob: yep I made a contact on 7290, almost still in shock. I just do not hear any activity most of the time, just seems like a shame. some of our Canadian friends do operate 3725 consistently so they are down there. I believe there was a post a short time ago from a chap that did order a bunch of low end crystals to sell and also wondered what happened. I was just running the ft1000 of 7290 with a 40 w carrier, 40 is probably my favorite band. It really changed fast when I was talking with Rick. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchoro...@gmail.com> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM 75- 80 meters
> Hi Bernie, > > I heard u in a qso this a.m. with WA3MJY and enjoyed reading the mail > and was gg to jump in and relay to da botayas that u were trying to > tell each other that the other guy had faded out but didn't get to the > rig before another QSO came up out of the aether...but anyway if some > sort of effort is made to populate 3.6 to 3.7 I'll give it a try--I > think the so called "am window" is used because there's a safety in > numbers notion and maybe a lot of the guys have their dipoles cut for > the top of 75 and/or have xtals up there (yes a few run rock bound > stuff) in addition to the other reasons. I know a few hams who don't > want to upgrade now that there is no code test. But yes, there's some > nice clear real estate down there below 3700. > > I tried to do my part to keep 7160 open this morning; tried calling cq > and found someone already there on LSB, so I qsy up to 7165 which > sounded clear for a few khz up and down and ran 300 w. and had a great > qso with Kevin WB0JZG but the SSB gang was getting restless and when > we wrapped it up some UFL (that's unidentified flying lid) preached a > nice sermonette and finished by telling us if we want broadcast audio > to go buy broadcast stations. On the other hand I got this very nice > email a few minutes ago from a ham who I won't identify because he may > not like my forwarding his email to a reflector so I'll just put in > the text: > > "I was monitoring 7.165 sunday morning and heard you and WB0JZG in > qso. I wish to congratulate you on your AM station and the broadcast > quality signal heard on sunday morning - very nice S9 + 10 carrier > with fantastic audio. Also your qrz bio was informative and humorus at > the same time. Enjoyable to read. In fone I operate mostly SSB but AM > adds spice, variety and enjoyment to my operating activities. I was > listening to you both on a restored Collins 75 A1. My AM transmitter > is a Collins 32 V2 with 2 channel EQ to give added mid range to base > generated by the Collins. I have made AM contacts on my Icom 7800 and > alpha 89. More fun using the Collins on AM." > > Well, that made my day especially after I saw the subject line which > was "Your AM signal" in my in-box and I got geared up for a flame from > some p.o. s/b operator! > > 73 > > Rob K5UJ > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
