[AMRadio] "Real" AM'er

[Bob Macklin]

My biggest problem with SSB is the JERKS don't talk long enough for me to 
tune them in!

I gather that today with the digital tuning people don't need to do the kind 
of tuning those of us using ANALOG boatanchor VFOs do.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Poole" <wa1rkt at arrl.net>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] "Real" AM'er


> At 09:45 AM 11/28/2011, Kevin Raper wrote:
>
> >>>>>
>>Anything less than a few Hundred Watts is a PW (Piss Weak) Station.
>>My Heathkit DX-60 is a PW Station while my Gates BC-500H is NOT a PW 
>>Station.
> <<<<<
>
> Oh, OK, well, I guess I'll be a PW station for the foreseeable
> future, with my DX-100B.  Considering building an amp, maybe even
> with a high-level modulator, but that'll be a while.
>
> >>>>>
>>Many AM Stations do not have push to talk, but have to flip several
>>switches to go from Receive to Transmit, so they try to say as much
>>as they can between switch flips.
> <<<<<
>
> I remember the transition days in the '50's between AM and SSB...
> 'scuse me, "Slop Bucket" :-)... when the ARRL and QST were trying
> hard to get people to take advantage of this new thing called VOX to
> cut down on the monologues and move to a quicker
> back-and-forth.  Even today, even on SSB, in a lot of cases seems
> like that effort had only limited effect.
>
> But, "several switches"?  Seems kind of excessive, even back then.  I
> recall seeing a video clip on YouTube where someone was demonstrating
> his big monster AM station, might have been based on a broadcast
> transmitter, don't remember, but it had an R-390 receiver in front of
> the operator and the transmitter in back of the operator.  The
> operator had to switch the receiver, then reach over there to switch
> the antenna, then turn his chair around to reach over here to switch
> the transmitter, then the opposite sequence to go back to receive...
> really seemed like some of that could have been automated a bit...
>
> Rick WA1RKT
>
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