[AMRadio] Rolling Your Own

[Donald Chester]

>>try needing everything on the list, and living 2000 miles away.
>>
>>from NY to PA is a short hop/skip/jump, and it doesn't matter
>>much, really, where in either state you are.
>>
>>Down in Texas, we've got people that travel from up in the panhandle to 
>>down in the rio Grnade Valley, to the semi-annual
>>"Belton HamFest" in Belton, TX (central Texas), as well as from
>>other states.  When you have a hamfest in the middo of Texas,
>>you're talking a few hundred miles from any state-line.

I've often thought that if I had the time, I would take a trip to Mexico and 
scour the countryside for old BC transmitters.  I  recall in the 50's there 
were many small Mexican BC stations on both MW and SW broadcast, but you 
don't hear them anymore.  Years ago, a couple of Spanish-speaking friends 
who were familiar with the country described some real JS setups that had 
vintage mid-30's transmitters kept on the air for decades with little more 
than bailing wire and chewing gum. Undoubtedly many of these have gone dark, 
but the Mexicans are not as prone as we Yanquis are to throw stuff away; and 
areas of the country where the climate is dry and the humidity low would 
allow metallic things to stay preserved even if it hadn't been used for 
years.  Some of those old transmitters from the 30's are no doubt still 
sitting in rundown buildings out in the middle of nowhere, and I suspect the 
locals would be glad to let the Gringos haul them away in exchange for a few 
Greenbacks.

Don K4KYV

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