[AMRadio] Hash on 3710

Sat Oct 2 20:27:06 EDT 2010

Friday night was a good night for Pacific Northwest AMing also.  We had a 
group on  3880 during the evening that included
northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.  The 
roundtable went on for quite some time.  I must say
I was very proud of my Viking II and the 100 watts into the inverted vee. 
The old girl worked very well.

73

Kelly   K7SU
Twin Falls, ID.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 11:21
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Hash on 3710

> Todd, tnx vy much for sig. report.  I was on different antennas last
> night--I finished working on getting the verticals ready for winter (to 
> the
> extent I could) and relearned how to detune the unused one and match the
> driven one and started out last night on the 75 m. 1/4 w. vertical.    A 
> guy
> in KC MO said it was working FB but most of the guys on frequency were
> closer in and reported a lot of deep QSB so I eventually went back to the
> dipole.  I'm not sure when you heard me so I don't know which antenna I 
> was
> on.  I wish I had noted the time I went to the dipole but it was probably
> around 10:30 Eastern time.
>
> I really apologize for the frequency choice.   I do not want this to sound
> arrogant or conceited at all as it is the simple truth--I have been an 
> Extra
> so long I have quit thinking much about the sub-bands and I must make a
> mental note to stay well above 3700.   Actually I started out on 3703 to
> avoid having my upper side band QRM some guys up on 3710 and a guy broke 
> me
> and said go up 3 so I did because by then the 3710 guys had quit.   He
> explained that he was not an extra so he couldn't work me down there.  So 
> we
> continued around 3706 but later some of the guys showed up on 05, then 04
> and the group gradually slid back down.
>
> The SSTV noise is kind of amusing because to me it is just like IBOC hash
> from a broadcast station and is actually less objectionable than the old
> SSTV.
>
> I saw the photos of the KW1 you posted--those rectifiers sure look sweet.
> Of course the whole rig looks good, and reminds me of the Collins work I
> have seen in their broadcast rigs.
>
> The work here on getting rid of 15 years of junk that accumulated while I
> was taking care of my parents is progressing.   I'm hauling some away in a
> few minutes to K9ACT's junk swap.  Jack is trying a new thing this year
> where we all bring the stuff we just want to get rid of and hope someone
> else will want some of it.  I'm taking an old dummy load I have no use for
> (I have three others as it is) and a Kantronics TNC (my packet days are
> over) plus a few other things.   I have a plan for the basement cleaning 
> now
> that I have done the upstairs and garage, so then I can organize my parts
> and tools and set up my workshop (a friend gave me a drill press) and get
> started on all these vintage rigs and such I have been buying.    As I 
> told
> ACT, running the plastic radio into an amp is okay for a year or so but
> after that it is boring.
>
> I hope all you night owls can get QRV an hour or two early so I can have a
> chance to work y'all.   By 11 p.m. I'm exhausted and babbling and have to
> kill the rig and hit the hay so I never get to talk to some of you (Don).
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Well, we had a big group tonight on 3703 to 3706 ( we moved 
>> > occasionally
>> to
>> > accommodate hams who had to stay inside the Advanced class sub-band) 
>> > with
>> a
>> > lot of strapping signals for about 3 hours or so and no digital hash or
>> SSB
>> > bugged us at all.   There were enough big carriers flattening the noise
>> on
>> > my end that I think they all just gave up and went away.
>>
>> Heard you in there Rob when you were on 03 so I didn't chime in. Along
>> with being in the Advanced portion but too close to to the band edge
>> for Advanced ops to use AM, another thing to consider is that 05 is a
>> popular frequency for the guys in Europe, like Henk in the Netherlands
>> and Jean in France, as well as guys from Malta, England, Wales and
>> elsewhere. If you're right on 05, there's a good chance they'll hear
>> you at their peak time and some of the gang can work across the pond.
>>
>> You were definitely the channel master when I heard you, Rob. Very
>> loud into NC, +20 to +40 without a lot of fluctuation. Could hear an
>> AB9 station well too, the others were down near the noise.
>>
>> I got the transmitter back together late in the afternoon, did some
>> testing and later fired up on 3710 to join Dee W4PNT in W VA and Tom
>> W3BYM in MD. We were joined by Larry K3JRR/4 who was demonstrating ham
>> radio to his 8 year old grandson Matt. Unfortunately the nitwit SSTV
>> goons decided it was time to fire up and from the comments I heard
>> from them when I tuned to sideband, it was indeed deliberate. They
>> tried jamming for a while with their pissweak carriers and whistling,
>> etc, ten finally turned on their noise boxes. One of them is in
>> Arkansas and another is in Alabama from what they said. Certainly from
>> the shallow end of the gene pool.
>>
>> After chatting there for about an hour, I moved up to 3725 and found
>> Al VE3AJM and Tim VE6PG having a discussion about MW and SW DXing of
>> the past, quite interesting so I listened for a while then joined in.
>> Both were coming in down here between 20-40 over. Had an excellent
>> chat with them until the wife got home from her school meeting, when
>> the guys were treated to hearing the garage door open in the
>> background as I was talking. Finally signed off a while later to spend
>> some time with the Mrs just as Don 'KYV arrived on frequency. When I
>> came back out later, 25 was quiet and you guys were down on 03, so I
>> called it a night. The last couple of early mornings working on the
>> rig caught up with me.
>>
>> Good news is, the band was in great shape for another night, and it
>> looks like I actually fixed the transmitter.I'll post some shots on
>> 'fone later of what I found, which I thought was pretty unusual but
>> apparently really isn't.
>>
>> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
>>
>>
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