[AMRadio] 40 Meter AM Ops from the Past
As an SWL, I spent a disproportionate amount of time on 40 meters because a coil in my Zenith receiver opened, killing off 80 and 160. When I began listening in 1966, there was a bunch of AM on 40 meters, even throughout the night. By the time I earned my General at age 15 in 1970, about all that was left was one group on 7295, and another that usually met on 7275. Here is a brief listing of calls from those days, some of whom actually took time to dig my Viking Ranger signal out of the noise and qrm. K4AGY, known as Kingfish, spent his final years in Chattanooga, but was on the Mississippi coast with a W5 call when I first heard him. He had a DX100 with negative cycle loading as promoted by Hoisy, W4CJL, from Florence, Alabama. Kingfish also had the distinction of being listed as a silent key by QST about 4 years prior to his actual death in 1971. I still remember the pile up the first day he came back on the air after that listing. As it turned out, he had been in an automobile accident which killed his wife, and left him with a broken neck. He lived on 7195 along with Wa4PQH - Sid from Atlanta, W4ATX - Sally from NC, Ernie - W4DWE from GA, Jim - W4DXw, from SC, and many others in the southeast whose calls escape my memory. They were often joined by W4CJL, K4KYV, W8VYZ, W4ZWE, and others. The other group was mainly from Louisiana and Texas. Perhaps best known from that group by some here would be Alton Gray, W5FAP, from San Antonio. He kept almost daily schedules with his brother-in-law, Oscar, W5OEB, from the Shreveport area, along with one or two of his sons, and a few others of us who were attracted by their good signals. Other calls that I remember were WA5OXE - Henry from Houston, the original holder of W5RF - Harry, from near Laurel, Ms, W4TK - Bob from Jacksonville, and W4ZZZ - Ross, from Miami. Remember that the 40 meter voice band was only from 7.2 - 7.3 back then. Those who think the bands are crowded now should have been there when they really were! 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] 40 Meter AM Ops from the Past
It was a sad day when the Kingfish died in July 1971. I was SWL'ing in those days.7295 was the holdout against the ssb crowd. Sally was in Waynesville, N.C. Sid was in East Point, GA and I can't remember the town in SC where Jim W4DXW was in.I heard Sid mobile several times running a Gonset G-76. Boyd W4ZWE's AM station got wiped out by a tornado in the spring of 1974.It was in a building behind his house in Toney, AL. Boyd is now retired to a ranch in the panhandle of TX.Don K4KYV was on some in the mornings.After I got my General in 1973, I worked a guy in High Point, N.C. who was running an ARC-5 to a vertical at a retirement home. I will have to see if I can find his call in my logs.I was using a Globe Scout 65A back then. Joe W4AAB __ 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] 40 Meter AM Ops from the Past
I talk to Boyd, W4ZWE regularly. He is in a little town called Channing, TX which in adjacent to Boy's Town of movie fame. He has some AM gear but is not as active as years past on AM. His signal into the South of Oklahoma is very good. In fact I helped him locate the mounting hardware for an 833. This was not too long ago and he said he was preparing the transmitter for a return to the air. Jim/W5JO - Original Message - From: "Joe Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It was a sad day when the Kingfish died in July 1971. I was SWL'ing in those days.7295 was the holdout against the ssb crowd. Sally was in Waynesville, N.C. Sid was in East Point, GA and I can't remember the town in SC where Jim W4DXW was in.I heard Sid mobile several times running a Gonset G-76. Boyd W4ZWE's AM station got wiped out by a tornado in the spring of 1974.It was in a building behind his house in Toney, AL. Boyd is now retired to a ranch in the panhandle of TX.Don K4KYV was on some in the mornings.After I got my General in 1973, I worked a guy in High Point, N.C. who was running an ARC-5 to a vertical at a retirement home. I will have to see if I can find his call in my logs.I was using a Globe Scout 65A back then. Joe W4AAB __ 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] 40 Meter AM Ops from the Past
How about the AM operators of the past on 75m? Anyone remember WA5FHP, Paul, in DeQuincy, LA? He used to have running battles with the slopbuckets on 3950 back in the 1960's and 1970's, maybe even early 1980's. Joe W4AAB __ 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] 40 Meter AM Ops from the Past
Joe, I remember Paul also, K5SWK, and K4RKG out of Mobile Al. O was a SWL in Ft. Walton Bch Fl back in the 60's and would love to listen to those guy's for hours on 75 . Always had nice signals and interesting conversations. Bob Carpenter KB4WEC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Crawford Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:55 PM To: Mike Duke, K5XU; Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 40 Meter AM Ops from the Past How about the AM operators of the past on 75m? Anyone remember WA5FHP, Paul, in DeQuincy, LA? He used to have running battles with the slopbuckets on 3950 back in the 1960's and 1970's, maybe even early 1980's. Joe W4AAB __ > 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. __ 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.
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At 09:21 PM 11/23/2008, you wrote: How about the AM operators of the past on 75m? yes I ran AM up till 1969 when mom and dad need SSB to stay in contact with me as i sailed the sea's and humped the delta.. they stayed on 3960 and held a net on weekends . Blue Grass Hoot Owl Net.. ran from 63 to 69. when the band was bad and i could not tell if it was them i just put my receiver in SSB and listened to the freq shift when they keyed the Globe Champion 350A.. well i have just about got that old rig rebuild.. need to get the choke and tranny up to Gary and get them rewound.. some may remember them WA4LLK and WA4RTJ.. they had check ins from all over the states and a few EU stations.. yes miss the Kingfish 73 Tony QBE ZUT DE WA4JQS ANTHONY W. (Tony) DePrato WA4JQS EXTRA - HEAVY Since 1962 CQ DX HALL OF FAME # 35 DXCC HONOR ROLL - 340 A1-OP FISTS # 10573 SKCC #1227 F.O.P. LODGE 68 DXCC PHONE- DXCC CW- DXCC RTTY- DXCC MIXED DXCC 40, 20, 15, 10 METERS WAC SSB WAC CW WAC RTTY WAC SAT South Sandwich Island Dxpedition Group CALLS HELD: WA4JQS/ZS1, WA4JQS/KC4, WA4JQS/4K1 ZD8JQS, V31SS, VP8BZL, VP8SSI, 3Y0PI __ 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.
