[AMRadio] AM presentation

[Kim Elmore]

I think this is a tractable presentation a long as no one gets 
"religious" about it.

Like any other aspect of ham radio, there's a lot of ways to get there 
from here. Good, high quality (not the same as high fidelity) AM is a 
technical challenge. For some, it only "counts" if it's done with 
home-brew hollow state devices and glow FETs or nothing. For others it's 
only "real AM" if it's made with refurbished vintage gear, a few want to 
restore and use WWII gear (and in the process find out how crummy some 
of it really was and how robust and wonderful some of it was), or even 
the rare factory-made pre-war gear. For yet others it's the challenge of 
Class E transmitters. The list is a delightfully long one.

In your presentation, I suggest the bottom line to be that AM is the 
genesis mode for SSB and using AM with both sidebands intact and the 
carrier still there is fun! Doing it well enjoys technical challenges 
that are different from other analog modes and, to get the most 
enjoyment, these challenges need to be understood. Beyond that, whatever 
they use to make good AM will be good enough!

Kim N5OP


On 6/15/2013 12:13 PM, Bob Stevens wrote:
> I have volunteered to give a short (@1 hr.) presentation to the local ham club on AM and the past and present use in ham radio. Can anyone point me to a good source of treatises and/or videos for this? Most of the new members have no background in this. TNX, Bob, K9ING
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