[AMRadio] Winter

[Todd Carpenter]

Perhaps the qrm problem can be solved easily. We should just petition the FCC to allow AM transmissions on bands below 30 meters using 20  KW carrier. Also, get them to include any future bands lower in frequency such as 600  meters, etc. Todd N9YSQ

On Fri Oct 1st, 2010 9:50 AM CDT D. Chester wrote:

>I had the same problem with  my HF-300 rig.  It would happen only 
>occasionally, but often enough to be annoying, and I kept running out of 
>fuses.  It went away when I replaced one of the sets of 872-As with 4B32s. 
>I still have some unused 872s, but I am using the xenon replacements right 
>now. I must have a bushel of used 4B32s that I picked up back in the late 
>60s, pulled  from military transmitters that had been taken out of service. 
>Only a couple of them have ever  flashed over, and I promptly threw those 
>away.
>
>3705 kc/s has been active the past few nights, usually after 0400 GMT.  I 
>also plan to try to stir up a little activity below 3700 as winter 
>progresses, particularly if the group near 3705 starts to get too large. If 
>a QSO grows to more than 4 participants, I tend to break away and start a 
>new one, unless the topic of conversation is enthralling or else I am 
>working on a bench project and each round is taking long enough that I can 
>do some serious work between transmissions.
>
>Don k4kyv
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