[AMRadio] AM Presentation

[Bob Macklin]

Let the people with PLASTIC RICEBOXES push the AM button and listen to some 
AM. Let them see how much better AM sounds than SSB does.

Also remember a 100W SSB RICEBOX will only produce a 25W AM Carrier.

 I don't hear any AM anymore and very little SSB except on contest days.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Presentation


> Hi Pete, I've observed you like to float that line about "AM is just a
> mode" but I'm sure 95% of AM ops would not be operating it if that
> were true.
>
> I certainly would not be.  If it is "just a mode" why is it the voice
> mode of choice for medium wave and shortwave broadcast?  As far as I
> know most of the other modes do not have the rich history AM has.  Is
> there a SSB Press Exchange or PSK31 magazine with a 25 year publishing
> history?
>
> "AM is just a mode" what a great way to encourage folks to take up the
> operating of AM.   Yes, let's just tell people about flex radios and
> plastic boxes and make them think there's nothing more to AM than
> pushing a little button that says AM.  Why not give them CB rigs and
> get it over with.
>
> CW could be a fine mode for vintage radio, but look at what pushing
> the CW button has done for it:   99% of CW ops today run plastic
> radios.  In fact, there was an article in a recent FISTS magazine
> issue bemoaning this and complaining that no one runs vintage gear on
> CW and calling it a "lost art."  Yep, we sure want everyone to push
> the AM button so the same thing will happen to us.
>
> Nice try but I'm sure our friend giving the presentation is not so
> easily fooled.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:00 PM,  <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
>> AM is just a mode like one of the many modes amateurs can use on the ham
>> bands. It offers advantages and disadvantages just like many of the other
>> modes we are allowed to use. Just like PSK , CW, SSB, etc., it can be fun
>> to communicate with others using the same mode and sometimes just as
>> frustrating due to QRM and propagation and band crowding. In speaking to
>> a club group, most likely, if any of them has bought a transceiver over
>> the last 15 or 20 years, there is an AM button or AM switch position they
>> can activate and be on the AM mode in seconds. The notion that one has to
>> run out a buy a vintage rig or build one just to operate in the AM mode
>> today and/or sound good, is outdated and highly overrated.
>>
>> Pete, wa2cwa
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:52:18 -0500 Bob Stevens <bob at choateco.net> writes:
>>> Tnx Rob, you nailed it. Whether I make a convert or not, the
>>> important thing is to make them aware that there's another part of
>>> the hobby. I'm not interested in PSK, but we had a presentation on
>>> it and now I know something abt another facet of this great hobby.
>>> 73, Bob K9ING
>>
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