[AMRadio] AM Radio

[John Tate]

Okay, I've been watching this thread for a couple days. Let me tell you, as someone who runs 100 watts of carrier from a Viking II and having once run 300 watts carrier from a Henry amplifier (1200 watts pep) on 80 meters...

 IT IS A PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE and MAKES the DIFFERENCE between BEING HEARD EASILY AND ENJOYING A QSO as opposed to making a contact and struggling through a QSO, especially during the summer months. 1 S-unit you say? Well when the noise floor is S9 that's a huge difference in AM reception. I understand the desire to go from the 100 watt level to legal limit on the low bands and IT DOES MAKE A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.

 Okay, there's my ancedotal evidence.... carry on.

 John KX5JT

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Poole
Sent: 01/24/12 05:39 PM
To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Radio

 At 06:05 PM 1/24/2012, Jim Wilhite wrote: >>>>> >There is a lot of difference between 400 PEP and 1500 PEP. <<<<< Not really. It's still less than 6 db, less than 1 "S" unit.