[AMRadio] AM from a ricebox

[Brett Gazdzinski]

I found the same thing on 2 meters, we used to get on
(the local AM guys), but were always getting yelled at for tying up
a repeater, or a simplex calling frequency.

Nothing but old timers talking about their ailments.

I could never remember calls and names on the fly, I need to write things
down, impossible while driving.
Got rid of that stuff, don't do DX, used to love rag chews on CW,
all bands, hour long QSO's with interesting people, but I am very
rusty with CW, and it takes me some concentration, impossible if the wife
is around.
I always used a straight key, got up to about 25 wpm comfortably.
I really used to enjoy CW, but like AM now.

I am sure there are some interesting people and topics on other
modes, but I never found much of it.

I almost always have a very fun and interesting qso on AM.
Lots to talk about, all type of radio stuff, cooking, cars,
life, other hobbies, etc.

For some reason, the people I talk to on AM always seem interesting
and intelligent.

Had a very good bunch of QSO's today, my only regret is the wife came
home and I had to get off and go out to eat.

Tomorrow, the spouse is going out with my sister to a Christmas thing,
and I get to play radio for a while, and to top that, I am off
for the next two weeks, and she has to work...

Brett
N2DTS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Donald Chester
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 12:08 PM
> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: RE: [AMRadio] AM from a ricebox
>
>
>
>
>
> >I am sure its around, but I rarely hear much even remotely
> >interesting on ssb...
> >... there are a bunch of groups from one end of the phone band
> >to the other, not saying much of interest to me, and very little
> >in the way of technical discussions.
>
> I found the same thing when I bought one of those little
> Radio Shack 10 m
> transceivers a few years ago.  It runs 7w AM and about 25
> watts on FM and
> SSB (pep).  I bought it mainly to be able to hear and the
> work the Europeans
> that were in abundance on FM, since my 75A4 doesn't have a FM
> detector.
>
> I could get on the air with it and work the world even with
> its limited
> power.  But I found mysely at a  loss to find something to
> talk about with
> most of the ops I contacted on both SSB and FM.  Once the exchange of
> ricebox model numbers and wx was completed, it was very hard
> to make any
> interesting conversation with most of these ops, and the DX
> guys were rarely
> interested in ragchewing, nearly always wanting to QRT
> immediately so they
> could work some more stations.
>
> After about half a dozen contacts using each mode on that
> rig, I put it on
> the shelf and it's still collecting dust.  I find my modified
> Eico 720/730
> combo much more fun to operate.  The Radio Shack 10m CB is
> there to serve as
> a backup in case the Eico craps out just when the band
> happens to be open.
>
> Don K4KYV
>
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