Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
Cancel last Bob...just read about your antenna situation. Too bad you can't string a piece of # 28 outside the penthouse...would anyone find out? I have a lot of info about loops on my web site. They work very very well and might just be the ticket for you. Just tune them with a variable cap acrosss the main winding with a one turn pick-up loop to the rx via 50 ohm cable. You might benefit from a small preamp if your loop is smaller than 4'. Steve / VE7SL Web: "THE VE7SL RADIO NOTEBOOK" at http://www.imagenisp.ca/jsm [L.F. Loops ] [Tuna Tin DX] [H.F. Maritime/Aero DX] [Crystal Radio DXing] [136 kHz Band] [NDB DX]
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
Don't forget 15M - 21.425. As 10 is getting worse, a lot of us 10M afficionados have been using 15M. 73 Mark K3MSB - Original Message - From: "Bob Macklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. > The 40M frequency is 7290. > The 20M frequency is 14286 > The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). > > Bob Macklin > K5MYJ/7 > Seattle, Wa. > > "REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK" > > - Original Message - > From: "Paul Baldock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:06 PM > Subject: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > > > > Could someone list or point me to a source of typical Amateur Radio AM > > calling frequencies on the LF/HF bands? > > > > Thanks > > > > __ > > AMRadio mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
> Here in Seattle I have lost the NW group because my antenna runs east to > west. And all the acivity is off the end to the east of me. Surely your 75m antenna is not THAT directional? What is it?? All of the NW guys are very loud up here, even the Idaho gang, on any piece of wire hung onto the rx. Steve / VE7SL / Mayne Island, BC
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
Bob, a smallloop for 75 meters would be 60 feet in circumference, use a 50 to 80 PF capacitor to tune it with 3000 volt airgap for up to 100 watts. You will also need a remote drive motor as the bandwidth is about 12 Khz. If you can get to your roof, you would be better to run a loop around the outside of building as a full wave loop on 80 meters, 274 feet of wire and feed with ladder line for all band use.It would be hard to see and the ladderline would run tight against the building down to your apartment. Otherwise, an endfed wire from your apartment up over the roof to the farr siude would work with a 1/4 wave counterpoise on 80,40 ,20 etc runing around the edge of the room and tied to copper cold water pipe if possible. Several years ago I installed a loop on the room of a condo and ran the 450 ladder line down through the plastic vent pipe to the bathroom. We cut a hole in the vent pipe in the bathroom to enter the ladder line then ran it to the rig in the bedroom.Worked very well. We were lucky that the vent pipt was accessable through a small hole, about 4 inches diameter, in the wall over which we hung a picture. Healthfully yours, Don W4BWS DON - Original Message - From: "Bob Macklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > About HF loops? > > I live in a senior apartment and I can't have an outdoor antenna. > > The ARRL Stealth Radio Book mentions loops but does not give much infomation > on them. > > I live on the fouth floor(in the PENTHOUSE) and I have a 4' by 6' livingroom > window. I have been thinking about making a 75M loop that would fit in the > window. But none of the infomation I have been able to find tells me how to > make a tuner for it. > > Bob Macklin > K5MYJ/7 > Seattle, Wa. > > "REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK" > > - Original Message - > From: "John Lawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion of AM Radio" > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 2:17 PM > Subject: RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > > > > > > > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Grant Youngman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > You'll also find activity around 3825 from time to time, and anywhere > > > between 3870-3890 or so, depending on whether or not the "owners" are > > > around. Apparently there are a small number of "exceptionally > professional" > > > amateurs to whom the FCC has sold dedicated, sole-use frequencies, which > you > > > MUST NOT USE even if the frequencies are clear. Many frequencies in the > 80M > > > band especially seem to fall into this category :-) > > > > > > > > > > And it's about time that shit came to a screeching halt, IMHO - it's bad > > enough all the harrasment from the sideband-only clowns, but this pedantic > > formal, ritualized "modulation bigotry" is just making the SSBer's point > > for them. I think the answer is to be very polite, courteous, and > > respectful, and also to run about 530.25 RMS watts into the antennae with > > clean, spur-free compandored 100% modulation - adhering all the while to > > the Commission's Rules and to the Gentlemen's Agreement Bandplan(s). > > > >And let 'em rant and rave all they want. That's what my Valiant, amp, > > and R-390 will be doing, as soon as I get the HF loop working again - > > soon! > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > John KB6SCO > > Carson City > > > > __ > > AMRadio mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
Ouch! At 03:43 PM 5/3/05 -0500, you wrote: > In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. > The 40M frequency is 7290. > The 20M frequency is 14286 > The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). You'll also find activity around 3825 from time to time, and anywhere between 3870-3890 or so, depending on whether or not the "owners" are around. Apparently there are a small number of "exceptionally professional" amateurs to whom the FCC has sold dedicated, sole-use frequencies, which you MUST NOT USE even if the frequencies are clear. Many frequencies in the 80M band especially seem to fall into this category :-) Also from time to time 7160 and 7200 give or take. Grant/NQ5T __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 4/27/05
[AMRadio] AM Frequencies
Oddly enough, one of the clearest frequencies lately here in Mississippi has been 14.286. Sometimes there is ssb competition, but more often than not, it's pretty clear. Last night, for instance, Ve4BX, along with Brian in the Ucon, and Ve6CQ were all pounding in on an absolutely clear frequency. The signals were so clear that they reminded me of the days when Fred, W6QS, ran God only knows how much power, and Les, K6HQI could run his 833s at full tilt. Both of those guys are long gone, but I spent many a happy hour listening to their rock-crushing signals as a kid. I actually did talk with Les once about a year before he died. Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
About HF loops? I live in a senior apartment and I can't have an outdoor antenna. The ARRL Stealth Radio Book mentions loops but does not give much infomation on them. I live on the fouth floor(in the PENTHOUSE) and I have a 4' by 6' livingroom window. I have been thinking about making a 75M loop that would fit in the window. But none of the infomation I have been able to find tells me how to make a tuner for it. Bob Macklin K5MYJ/7 Seattle, Wa. "REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK" - Original Message - From: "John Lawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 2:17 PM Subject: RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Grant Youngman wrote: > > > > > > > You'll also find activity around 3825 from time to time, and anywhere > > between 3870-3890 or so, depending on whether or not the "owners" are > > around. Apparently there are a small number of "exceptionally professional" > > amateurs to whom the FCC has sold dedicated, sole-use frequencies, which you > > MUST NOT USE even if the frequencies are clear. Many frequencies in the 80M > > band especially seem to fall into this category :-) > > > > > And it's about time that shit came to a screeching halt, IMHO - it's bad > enough all the harrasment from the sideband-only clowns, but this pedantic > formal, ritualized "modulation bigotry" is just making the SSBer's point > for them. I think the answer is to be very polite, courteous, and > respectful, and also to run about 530.25 RMS watts into the antennae with > clean, spur-free compandored 100% modulation - adhering all the while to > the Commission's Rules and to the Gentlemen's Agreement Bandplan(s). > >And let 'em rant and rave all they want. That's what my Valiant, amp, > and R-390 will be doing, as soon as I get the HF loop working again - > soon! > > > > Cheers > > John KB6SCO > Carson City > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Grant Youngman wrote: You'll also find activity around 3825 from time to time, and anywhere between 3870-3890 or so, depending on whether or not the "owners" are around. Apparently there are a small number of "exceptionally professional" amateurs to whom the FCC has sold dedicated, sole-use frequencies, which you MUST NOT USE even if the frequencies are clear. Many frequencies in the 80M band especially seem to fall into this category :-) And it's about time that shit came to a screeching halt, IMHO - it's bad enough all the harrasment from the sideband-only clowns, but this pedantic formal, ritualized "modulation bigotry" is just making the SSBer's point for them. I think the answer is to be very polite, courteous, and respectful, and also to run about 530.25 RMS watts into the antennae with clean, spur-free compandored 100% modulation - adhering all the while to the Commission's Rules and to the Gentlemen's Agreement Bandplan(s). And let 'em rant and rave all they want. That's what my Valiant, amp, and R-390 will be doing, as soon as I get the HF loop working again - soon! Cheers John KB6SCO Carson City
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
But 7160 to 7200 are in the EXTRA segment. I have been hearing SSB activity on 7200 in the early evening but it has been fading the last couple of weeks. Yet where I live 7290 seems to be clear. Bob Macklin K5MYJ/7 Seattle, Wa. "REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK" - Original Message - From: "Grant Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of AM Radio'" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:43 PM Subject: RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > > > In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. > > The 40M frequency is 7290. > > The 20M frequency is 14286 > > The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). > > You'll also find activity around 3825 from time to time, and anywhere > between 3870-3890 or so, depending on whether or not the "owners" are > around. Apparently there are a small number of "exceptionally professional" > amateurs to whom the FCC has sold dedicated, sole-use frequencies, which you > MUST NOT USE even if the frequencies are clear. Many frequencies in the 80M > band especially seem to fall into this category :-) > > Also from time to time 7160 and 7200 give or take. > > Grant/NQ5T > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
Good Luck! I hope you can hear something. Here in Seattle I have lost the NW group because my antenna runs east to west. And all the acivity is off the end to the east of me. The So. Cal. group used to operate on 14286 in the early evening. Now all I hear on 14286 is SSB. And I have yet to hear anything in 7290. But the Fla. group is operating on 7290(I THINK!). Bob Macklin K5MYJ/7 Seattle, Wa. "REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK" - Original Message - From: "Paul Baldock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > At 01:33 PM 5/3/05 -0700, you wrote: > >In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. > >The 40M frequency is 7290. > >The 20M frequency is 14286 > >The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). > > Thanks. I just acquired a Johnson Viking Valiant and am anxious to get back > in to the "old ways". > > Regards > > Paul - KW7Y - Camano Island > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
> In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. > The 40M frequency is 7290. > The 20M frequency is 14286 > The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). You'll also find activity around 3825 from time to time, and anywhere between 3870-3890 or so, depending on whether or not the "owners" are around. Apparently there are a small number of "exceptionally professional" amateurs to whom the FCC has sold dedicated, sole-use frequencies, which you MUST NOT USE even if the frequencies are clear. Many frequencies in the 80M band especially seem to fall into this category :-) Also from time to time 7160 and 7200 give or take. Grant/NQ5T
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
At 01:33 PM 5/3/05 -0700, you wrote: In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. The 40M frequency is 7290. The 20M frequency is 14286 The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). Thanks. I just acquired a Johnson Viking Valiant and am anxious to get back in to the "old ways". Regards Paul - KW7Y - Camano Island
Re: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
In the NE try 3885. In the NW try 3870. The 40M frequency is 7290. The 20M frequency is 14286 The 10M frequency is 29000 and up to about 29050(?). Bob Macklin K5MYJ/7 Seattle, Wa. "REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK" - Original Message - From: "Paul Baldock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:06 PM Subject: [AMRadio] AM frequencies > Could someone list or point me to a source of typical Amateur Radio AM > calling frequencies on the LF/HF bands? > > Thanks > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
RE: [AMRadio] AM frequencies
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/bandplan.html 73 Tim, AG4XM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Baldock Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:06 PM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: [AMRadio] AM frequencies Could someone list or point me to a source of typical Amateur Radio AM calling frequencies on the LF/HF bands? Thanks __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
[AMRadio] AM frequencies
Could someone list or point me to a source of typical Amateur Radio AM calling frequencies on the LF/HF bands? Thanks
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