[AMRadio] Was what is this???? now why I like AM

[Brett Gazdzinski]

I got into radio on CB.
I got some sort of radio shack base station thing, tunable receive, xtal 
transmit, 100 MW power out.
Talked with friends in the hood, and some older guys a few blocks away and 
thought it was great.
It used to be people talked normal with a few 10 codes thrown in, no cb jive 
talk.
Friends got tube transceivers that I thought were SO cool but I could not 
afford one.

Like everything else, ham radio is going down the tubes, like everything is 
going down the tubes, and has been for the last 1000 years or so, the older 
people always think things are going down the tubes.

My beef is, I got a general ticket in the 70's all by myself, never had any 
help with radio.
Now I would like to upgrade, but think since I built my own receivers 
(tubes), transmitters, antenna's, and have operated 100% homebrew for the 
last 10 years (no commercial ham equipment in my shack), I am entitled to an 
extra class license.
I know the code, know electronics, but have no interest in vhf/uhf/space 
communication.

Unless there is a VE willing to just upgrade me, guess I will stay a 
general!

In the age of cell phones and voip, ham radio is dead, kids are not 
interested, there is nothing amazing about talking to someone with all the 
static/noise/Donald Duck sounds when you can call someone on the other side 
of the planet and send pix and so on.

Brett
N2DTS



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Raper" <kj4hyd at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Was what is this???? now why I like AM


>
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:47 AM, D. Chester wrote:
>
>> Anyone whose mode of choice is first and foremost AM, and who designs,
>> constructs, repairs or modifies his/her own station equipment, 
>> inherently
>> resides amongst the elite of the amateur radio community.
>>
>> I wear the "elitist" label as a badge of honour.
>
> Good Point! I am always amazed at how many extras come to me wanting a 
> filter put in their radios. Gee, an EXTRA can't plug in a filter? I run 
> mostly modified an re-purposed Broadcast equipment myself.
>
> 73,
> Kevin Raper
> KJ4HYD
> CE WCKI WQIZ
>
> There is no limitation to the fidelity of AM radio. From a mathematical 
> standpoint, AM does better in frequency response than FM. - Leonard Kahn
>
>
>
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