[AMRadio] AM attracts newcomers to ham radio

[Donald Chester]

>From: Jordan Arndt <jordana at nucleus.com>

>Some of my earliest AM memories are of W7AMK on 160 meters AM every
>morning in the late 60's... I first heard him using a Sony transistor
>radio tuned to the very top end of the BCB.... I used to put the radio
>near the copper tile strip that ran around the kitchen counter and listen
>to the Pac N.W. AM guys on 160... Then the bug hit..... 73 de Jordan...

The late 60's... hmmm, let's see.  That's when the fury of Vietnam was at 
its peak, flower power was still in bloom, the streets were aflame while 
Urban Renewal was demolishing the the hearts of our cities, Incentive 
Licensing had just gone into effect and... that's about when AM was supposed 
to have died.  Those of us who stuck it out on AM received unbelievable 
flack for not going along with the ham radio "establishment", dumping our AM 
rigs in the landfill and buying a transceiver.  The major magazines, 
including QST, refused to even acknowledge our existence.  The AM'ers were 
just a bunch of riff-raff and troublemakers, kind of in the same category as 
the dirty pot-smoking hippies who were conspiring to rape our daughters 
while they dismantled our society.

Just think.  If those guys in the Pac N.W. hadn't kept on running AM, Jordan 
might not be a ham today.  How's that for our desperate need to recruit 
newcomers to amateur radio?

Don K4KYV

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