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

[Bob Peters]

Brett, Do not want to get a long thread going here but I totally disagree
with you... I am the station Manager at K5BSA which is the Texas Boy Scout
station here in Dallas area. On any given weekend that we are there and the
station on the air we will get from 5 to 50 Boy Scouts through and lots of
interest in Ham Radio. Our local club has Ham Radio in the Park to introduce
folks to Ham Radio...We get up to about 60 people that come out to find out
what ham radio is. If you get involved with the community you get new
operators. In our little city we have gotten more than 50 new hams this
year...It grows if you help it grow... Enough said...Ohhh and by the way, we
teach how to home brew and CW as well...

Very Best 73's
Bob Peters
W1PE

ARRL, QCWA, AM FOREVER

Money is only temporary, Radio is forever
>From The Old Dog




-----Original Message-----
From: amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brett Gazdzinski
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:08 PM
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Was what is this???? now why I like AM

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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