[AMRadio] 10M AM Frequencies

Fri Sep 23 08:03:27 EDT 2011

Ain't that the truth.  I leave a receiver scanning the beacon part of  the 
band, which is a much better indicator of when the bands' open and where (if 
 you can copy cw or make a freq vs.  location list if you don't). Although  
sometimes it can seem to be open at 28 and not 29.

Then I turn the antenna go to 29.0 and call CQ on AM, and no one answers  
:) 

Then I go to 28.4 and call and almost always someone answers, alas, on  SSB.

 I'm convinced that a lot of  guys that operate AM don't try much  to look 
for and operate e skip openings, and just wait for higher sunspot  numbers 
instead.  

73 Scott

In a message dated 9/23/2011 6:35:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
mark.k3msb at gmail.com writes:

If you  don't hear any activity,  then call CQ.   Too many people park  on
29.0 and listen while doing other things around the shack.

73  Mark K3MSB

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Eddy Swynar  <deswynar at xplornet.ca> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Gosh,  I'd just like to hear some AM on 10-meters ANYWHERE on the  
band...!
>
> Whenever the band is rockin' & rollin' with CW  and SSB signals, I always
> make it a point to tune above 29.0-MHz for  any tell-tale sign of
> carrier(s)---NOTHING! I'm left wondering  (seriously!) if all the AM'ers 
that
> I worked there in the last solar  maximum have joined the ranks of SKs, or
> what...
>
> What  a pity it is that 99.9% of AM'ers are so adept at making proverbial
>  "old buzzard" transmissions---but are so slow at getting "with it" by  
riding
> the tide of improved propagation in the higher  bands!
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI -  VE3XZ
>
>
>
>  
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>
>
>  On 2011-09-23, at 6:40 AM, Geoff Edmonson wrote:
>
> > I did  some research on this.
> >
> > So, AM is allowed on 28.3 to  28.5, but for General class licensee's and
> above, only... and if a  novice or a tech tries to join, the higher 
classes
> have to tell them  that 'you can't operate that mode'. How well does that 
go
> over to  entry level hams who came straight from CB? Their untempered
> mentality  still screams "You can't tell me how to run MY station!" To 
which
> one  says "no, I can't, but the FCC can and will." By then, they're 
already
>  in a defensive posture, no amount of reasoning is going to work and  
how's
> that going to put ham radio in a positive light?
>  >
> > Potentially, thousands of hams are going to be turned off by  the 'rigid
> iron-fisted rulers' and the numbers of rank-and-file  amateurs continues 
it's
> downward spiral.
> >
> > *I*  think (and this is just -my- opinion) that there should only be the
>  prevailing mode in the specially set-aside segment for that particular  
class
> of license. Novices and Techs can only run CW, SSB and 200w?  Fine.  Then
> that's what the rest of the operators on that segment  of frequencies  
should
> adhere to, as well. Run up above 28.5 all  the way to 29.4 (where FM is
> generally accepted to start) for every  other mode, then let the novices 
and
> techs listen and see what they're  missing out on. Give 'em some incentive
> instead of trying to ram it  down their throat.
> >
> > Sounds weird coming from me, an  avid AM'er... but I'd rather see the
> numbers -grow-, and at the same  time foster good operators who know and
> understand what rules are and  have them abide by them.
> >
> > 73 = Best Regards,
>  > -Geoff/W5OMR
> >
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