[AMRadio] Fw: Is AM a special case, or is it "just another mode"?

[Bernie Doran]

> ARRL must be run by complete idiots if they really asked why have A.M. 
> sites.  Really? then why are there VHF sites, UHF sites, Dx sites, 
> National radio, contest sites. Digital sites  RTTY, etc etc.  I would 
> wager that a deep search could find 100 sites addressing some portion of 
> Amateur Radio operation.  The other aspect of this is there is no such 
> thing as CW, it is on and off thus AM, SSB is also AM,  only a few  use 
> F.M. I have never heard it any where. The same thing with the stupid 
> magazine, it is almost completely advertisements with tech articles on how 
> to unscrew a light bulb!!!  Go back and look at the 1950s magizenes, there 
> were articles on , gasp, building transmitters and receivers!!  Now it is 
> where one can buy a dipole antenna, that likely will not be resonate or 
> impenednce matched when installed.  Or a verticle antenna that needs no 
> ground system.   Heres a great idea, just use a light bulb for an antenna, 
> easy to monitor output and the receiver noise will be way down, plus 
> almost no risk of lightening strike damage.
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> Sorry for the length of this, I just get sick of dealing with bottom 
> feeders!!  Probably also has something to do with not having the Gates 
> turned on for over a year, no  I am not dead!  Bernie W8RPW
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