[AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
Still being fairly new what are the most active bands in the summer on AM? Last month I read here that the 10 M band was open, is that still true, any other bands likely prospects? Bob Young KB1OKL _ Time for vacation? WIN what you need- enter now! http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergiveaway/?ocid=tag_jlyhm__ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...Still being fairly new what are the most active bands in the summer on AM? * Hi Bob, Probably THE most active band 'round THESE parts on AM in the summer is THE BEACH BOYS (n'yuk-n'yuk-n'yuk!)...Hi Hi. ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... 73, cul... Bob de k2ki EP Swynar wrote: On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...Still being fairly new what are the most active bands in the summer on AM? * Hi Bob, Probably THE most active band 'round THESE parts on AM in the summer is THE BEACH BOYS (n'yuk-n'yuk-n'yuk!)...Hi Hi. ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
Bob Bruno - K2KI wrote: You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... 73, cul... Bob de k2ki EP Swynar wrote: On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...Still being fairly new what are the most active bands in the summer on AM? == 10 meters has been opening up lately. Check 29 -29.2 AM. I have made contacts there. K9DVL Dave __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL
In a message dated 7/18/2008 10:26:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Steve WD8DAS writes: i find it very interesting how the ARRL has changed the nature of their It started out as a worthy fight against yet another RFI problem from devices that aren't supposed to radiate. Over time their effort has morphed into a drive to get BPL operators to notch out the ham bands only and let the rest of the spectrum go to the dogs. I wonder why? First, I am no fan of tha Leage. But from a realistic point of view, There is no real way to completely stop BPL. There are too many forces commited to trying to deploy it. From a tactical prespective, if you can't stop your opponent, denying him key terrain (frequencies) is the next best thing. Espescially when the ARRL does not have limitless legal/financial resources. So it was smart to alter the objective of the effort to something that was obtainable within a reasonable amount of money and work. I am against all forms of unnecessary radio noise from unlicensed devices - not just those in the ham bands. And I am a bit surprised that the League has narrowed its objective in this way. Maybe it makes it easier to declare mission accomplished! Frankly, I'm with you on this one. I find that people (companies and governments) usually don't care a lick about RF noise generated by thier equipment. I try to make the point by explaining that electrically noisy equipment may be ready to fail, inefficient, or dangerous depending on the situation. Sometime is works sometimes not. And, it should be noted that getting a few thousand bucks back from the FCC doesn't do anything to stop BPL. The FCC hasn't changed a thing... Steve WD8DAS **Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr000520) __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
During this current low sunspot period, 10M (and higher bands) open up to occasional summer E-layer sporadic skip. Listen around 29.0 and 50.4 (+/-). 75/80 is good for late aftenoon QSO's but QRN from lightning takes over after dark. Same for 160. 40 is good almost all day, until late when the band goes long. Finally, 20 is good all day at 14.286. Hope that helps. Ed, VA3ES __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL
At 10:38 AM 7/19/2008, you wrote: Kim wrote: This is simply an unfair assertion. It is not the ARRL's job to be the Omniscient Spectrum Protector. Most of the spectrum is not the Amateur's to protect. I disagree. I asserted that the League has changed its role, and speculated on reasons that might have happened - not that the role of the ARRL should be as Omniscient Spectrum Protector. I see the role of ARRL as representative of the membership. And my experience has been that the membership tends to be interested in the entire radio spectrum. I simply do not approve of the ARRL expending any of it's limited capacity on protecting broadcast spectrum when the broadcasters themselves are far better equipped to do that. For example, many, many of the hams that enjoy operating AM also are avid listeners to utility and broadcast stations elsewhere in the spectrum. I agree. However, it is not our responsibility to protect that spectrum. As romantic as the Golden Age of broadcasting was, the broadcasters are in it for the money, and they have a lot more of it than we do. If they want clean spectrum, they have to step up to the plate and fight BPL according to their own interests. There's nothing wrong with the ARRL, or amateurs in general, speaking up for general spectrum integrity, but our limited resources must be used for our immediate benefit. And I personally embrace the idea that the Amateur is a leader in at least the philosophies and policies of electronics and communications, and can offer guidance to all sides - a sort of liaison between the general population and the government and corporations on these subjects. You'll get no argument from me on this. The ARRL can make amicus -like filings in various actions (they have done this many times over the years), but when push comes to shove and real money has to be expended to protect our spectrum from poor management -- or outright abandonment -- I expect that money to be expended to specifically and explicitly protect the amateur spectrum. Indicting the ARRL because they don't take up a general fight against BPL to protect everyone's spectrum is unfair and unreasonable. Kim Elmore N5OP __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
Bob Bruno - K2KI wrote: You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... 73, cul... Bob de k2ki Man, Bob, so do I! But you're probably aware of the oldie's show on WABC Sat. nites from 6:00 - 10:00PM with Mark Simone as the live DJ. Very much the same flavor as the old days. Also, he usually has at least one live interview during the course of the show - I have heard interviews with Cousin Bruce Morrow, Dan Ingram, and Harry Harrison, as well as the musicians from the old days. Jay Black from Jay and the Americans has there on several occasions. Give it a listen tonite! 73, -Larry/NE1S __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... * Hi Bob, Well, if I have dated myself, I wear it as a badge of honour...honestly! I know that each passing generation disparages the one succeeding it, but man-o-man, I have seen the future in the form of kids in our schools to-day, and I fear for it! I fear for my old age pension, I fear for any feeling of public spiritness, I fear for the human race. PERIOD. But I guess we have only ourselves to blame for making these self-centred inconsiderate loutish doltish privileged oafs the way they are... Anyway, back to radio... In these parts, the late 50's / early 60's meant CHUM AM from Toronto, on 1050-KHz. Those were the days of the weekly CHUM Charts, Jungle Jay Nelson, Bob McAdory, Al Boliska, and a host of others personalities. I recall the early 60's laying in bed after lights out, hidden well under the covers, with my Sony pocket transistorized radio ear plug, listening to the sounds of the British invasion! ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Which Bands for Summer AM?
I'm sure the static level was just as high when I was an SWL in the mid and late 60s as it is today, but I lived on 40 meters at night during the summer. That's where I copied my first CW over the air. Despite the multiple occurrences of Voice of America, Radio Moscow, BBC, Radio Prague, and others, there was still a lot of aAM activity on 40 at night until about 1968 or so. The SSB activity was also pretty solid. I'm convinced there were more signals crammed into the space between 7.2 and 7.3 than there are now that the phone band has been expanded to 7.125. I now here very little AM activity on 40 meters, either day or night, and it looks like everybody has abandoned 14.286 altogether. As for that other AM band, my local BC station signed off at sunset. So, for me it was Art Roberts on WLS from Chicago, and Rob Robins on KAAY out of Little Rock. Will anyone else here admit to listening to Beaker Street, hosted by Clyde Clifford on KAAY? Those head bangers don't have anything on the Beaker Street gang! Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Which Bands for Summer AM?
Humm! What about Jack the Cat on WNOE? Jim/W5JO - Original Message - From: Mike Duke, K5XU Subject: [AMRadio] Which Bands for Summer AM? I'm sure the static level was just as high when I was an SWL in the mid and late 60s as it is today, but I lived on 40 meters at night during the summer. That's where I copied my first CW over the air. Despite the multiple occurrences of Voice of America, Radio Moscow, BBC, Radio Prague, and others, there was still a lot of aAM activity on 40 at night until about 1968 or so. The SSB activity was also pretty solid. I'm convinced there were more signals crammed into the space between 7.2 and 7.3 than there are now that the phone band has been expanded to 7.125. I now here very little AM activity on 40 meters, either day or night, and it looks like everybody has abandoned 14.286 altogether. As for that other AM band, my local BC station signed off at sunset. So, for me it was Art Roberts on WLS from Chicago, and Rob Robins on KAAY out of Little Rock. Will anyone else here admit to listening to Beaker Street, hosted by Clyde Clifford on KAAY? Those head bangers don't have anything on the Beaker Street gang! Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Which Bands for Summer AM?
Mike Duke, K5XU wrote: Will anyone else here admit to listening to Beaker Street, hosted by Clyde Clifford on KAAY? Hi Mike, Ironically, it was only about a day ago that I shot an email off to Duane, W8DBF who is also a blind ham, on the topic of Beaker Street on KAAY. He'd had an inquiry about an unusual talking blues tune about the boxer Jack Johnson that someone thought was done by Ray Stevens. I can only guess, but whoever would confuse Jaime Brockett with Ray Stevens must have been partaking of the same rope that the first mate did. For those who think this is nuts and off-topic, you're at least half right - but The Ballad of the USS Titanic was one of many obscure yet great tunes that worked their way into my impressionable young consciousness by way of the 50,000 watt voice of KAAY, Little Rock in the late '60s, and the late-night album-oriented rock program called Beaker Street. It was the first underground music program on an AM blowtorch and, to pull things slightly back toward topic, the host, Clyde Clifford was the name a real person - but not the one playing the music. Clyde W. Clifford was the comptroller general of LIN Broadcasting, owners of KAAY, and it was an inside joke that DJs would pick their air names from the suits. The real name of the guy who did the show was Dale Seidenschwarz and his HAM callsign is WA5AVA. Clyde held a First Class Radiotelephone license, required to run a 50,000 watt AM station in those days, and got his start as a transmitter engineer! Those head bangers don't have anything on the Beaker Street gang! Indeed not! And if you're not aware, Beaker Street can still be heard on Sunday nights on KKPT 94.1 in Little Rock, or via streaming audio on the web. http://www.beakerstreet.com/ Now instead of covering half a continent, the program can be heard anywhere in the world, but it's just not the same without the selective fading and QRN. (You can also find playlists and downloadable programs in MP3 format on the site) As Clyde himself says, what a long strange trip it's been! 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
Rap music will save the future generations. Cousin Brucie is on Sirius. Pete, wa2cwa On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:56:50 -0400 EP Swynar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL
The League doesn't have to do everything my, way of course, - I was just holding the organization up to the standard of my imaginary perfect organization. A friend of mine offered an excellent explanation of why the change, why the ARRL zeroed-in on just the ham bands in the fight against BPL: The way Ed Hare puts it in the BPL list, is that hams (ARRL) have no legal beef in the spectrum that we are not licensed to use. Thus no legal leverage. Good point. Once the League switched to a legal battle with the FCC I see they had to narrow the focus. That makes sense. But I do encourage the ARRL to continue the overall anti-BPL effort, on all fronts, on all bands, as it ultimately serves ham radio to have a cleaner spectrum. Steve WD8DAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wd8das.net/ --- Radio is your best entertainment value. --- __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] AM Radio and The Beach Boys
This is the first Bob, but I remember listening to transistor radios everywhere including bed when I was a kid, used to listen for NY stations at night (now with IBOC, I'd wish they'd shut half the damn things off) but yeah anything that sounded like The Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys etc. were cool with me. I was 10 when The Beatles broke here, saw them on Ed Sullivan and remember it (really). One of my favorites was a Radio Shack crystal radio I got when I was about 12, I remember hearing songs like I (Can't get no) Satisfaction on it, that and a nice Zenith tombstone my great grandmother had given me that I later blew up fixing it, haha! Gotta love the Beach Boys though, I get around. Dance, dance, dance, 409, Little Deuce Coupe, on and on, I still have those LP's and play them, the good ones sound better than the CD's. Bob Young KB1OKL -- Message: 11 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:56:50 -0400 From: EP Swynar Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM To: , Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... Anyway, back to radio... In these parts, the late 50's / early 60's meant CHUM AM from Toronto, on 1050-KHz. Those were the days of the weekly CHUM Charts, Jungle Jay Nelson, Bob McAdory, Al Boliska, and a host of others personalities. I recall the early 60's laying in bed after lights out, hidden well under the covers, with my Sony pocket transistorized radio ear plug, listening to the sounds of the British invasion! ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_family_safety_072008__ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM
Rap music is not music. Rap is Retchedness Attempting Poetry. Joe W4AAB - Original Message - From: Peter Markavage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Most active bands in summer for AM Rap music will save the future generations. Cousin Brucie is on Sirius. Pete, wa2cwa On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:56:50 -0400 EP Swynar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19th July, Bob wrote: ...You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones beach... sigh... __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
