Here is what irritated me for the most part: "In addition the carrier of an AM signal can make an annoying steady tone in the receiver of a station that is listening to SSB in the next channel. ...listen in SSB mode first to make sure that no one is using SSB nearby before making a call using AM."
That torques me off for three or four reasons. 1. It implies that AMers must not "annoy" those operating SSB. Oooh, we'd better tip toe around the great exalted SSB stations. 2. It ignores the fact that most SSB ops now have auto-notch. 3. What if the AMer only has an old receiver like a SX28 and can't listen in SSB? Yes, some guys out there only have old recievers. I guess they all are supposed to run out and get a SSB rx so they can be considerate. 4. What the heck is a "channel?" What is this now, CB? (I am seeing more and more CB type lingo creeping into ham radio but that's another issue.) I thought we were using frequencies. 73 Rob K5UJ On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Robert Nickels <ranic...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 1/20/2010 8:14 AM, CL in NC wrote: >> But I guess I shouldn't look a $39 a year gift horse in the mouth. >> > Hi Charlie, > > I agree, it was a good article overall, and the fact that it was written > by Joel Hallas W1ZR is significant. He's their Technical Editor and > seems to be a good guy who appreciates vintage radio and it's place in > the hobby. I appreciate all the increasing coverage of boatanchors, > building projects, AM operation, etc - we could do a lot worse. > > 73, Bob W9RAN > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
