[AMRadio] W5OMR travels

[Larry Szendrei]

On 3/18/13 8:00 PM, Geoff wrote:
> Maybe I'm wrong about thus, but the "glue" of the conversation was made possible by the AM operations that, by the grace of my driving job, allowed me to personally visit NE1S & WA1HLR (check offs of my personal bucket list), operating on Larry's Class E PDM rig (on AM), and participating in the "Lonely Guys" net (an AM net), comparing nites on mobile installations and how it holds up on AM.... Commenting on the difference in a Class H and PWM modulator...  the whole conversation was only possible, because it CENTERED around... AM.... along with discussing other AM conversations I either listened to or was involved in.
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> Am I off base?
>
You're not, Geoff, IMHO. Especially since you and I had originally met 
many years ago right on this list. Had it not been for this list, our 
visit last weekend would not have occurred. The problem, as I read it, 
occurred when the thread drifted off-topic to (only) climate and 
critters. I wasn't bothered by that, but that's just me.

You had neglected to include in the above Fun with Tesla Coils, which is 
on-topic because the RF produced and radiated is amplitude-modulated, 
whether by 120 Hz (in the 833-excited coil, powered by an unfiltered 
full-wave rectifier) or by a very complex and somewhat random function 
as in the spark-excited coil. Unmodulated Tesla coils, like unmodulated 
carriers, are rather boring ;-)

We did have fun, didn't we?

Minor correction to the above - My PDM AM rig's RF PA operates in class 
"C" (which sounds like class "E" when spoken).

Another guy I had originally met via this list was Jim WD5JKO, who paid 
me a visit last August. So now I've had eyeball QSOs at my Maine QTH 
from two friends I had made right here. Who's next?

73,
-Larry/NE1S