Hi Group, Name here is Bill and I am essentially a newbie to AM Operating. I've just completed assembly of my vintage AM station and have spen time fruitlessly calling CQ on 7.290 and 7.160 when I can get in between the SSB lids. Was able to finally complete a QSO with Warren, W1GUD down in Tampa tonight on 7.155 as he was wrapping up a round table with a couple other guys that the QRN and QRM was keeping me from copying.
I'll be out there only on 40 until I can get my long wire antenna back up then 80/160 will be open to me as well. Watch for me. I'm running a Johnson Viking 1 and an HQ 170-A from up here near DC. 73 Bill-WF1L Reston, VA --- On Sun, 9/27/09, Rob Atkinson <ranchoro...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Rob Atkinson <ranchoro...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM 75- 80 meters To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Date: Sunday, September 27, 2009, 12:27 PM 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
