[AMRadio] G8NOF on 15m

[Bry Carling]

A lot of folks still have been ordering 7160 and 7190 from me too...

Bry Carling
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On Sep 7, 2013, at 5:46 PM, "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at charter.net> wrote:

> "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> 
> <<Jay - a lot of USA ops run AM on 7140 X 3 = 21.420 kHz because of an
> abundance of crystals available for that frequency. You might listen there
> too, from time to time.
> 
> I have sold dozens of crystals on 7140 over the past 3 years.>>
> 
> 
> Maybe that would be a good AM frequency for 40m. It seems the AM community
> lost interest in the old AM frequency of 7160 once the novelty wore off
> following the broadcasters vacating 7100-7200, but if there are that many
> 7140 xtals out there, maybe they could be pressed into service on their
> fundamental frequency as well.
> 
> I have been active on the 7190 frequency in the evenings recently, but it
> gets crowded and there is nearly always someone in the large roundtable who
> is unreadable here because of the skip zone on the band. I usually wait
> until after 0300 GMT, when activity is winding  down, since  many of
> to-day's AM ops are not night-owls as in yesteryear, and have had some very
> nice QSOs between 0300 and 0400. At 0358Z a very  strong and irritating BC
> station fires up on 7295, and its LSB wipes out 7290. A few times we have
> QSYed to 7285 and carried on for another hour, but another broadcaster fires
> up on that frequency at 0500 GMT. After 0500Z, it often works to QSY down to
> 7260 plus or minus QRM, although you may have to dodge slopbucket activity.
> In any case, the BC activity in that part of the band seems less severe than
> it was just a  few years ago. I  suspect shortwave broadcasting is going the
> way of pay phones, land line telephones and video cassette tapes, so maybe
> more of the band will open up to amateur operation in years to come.
> 
> There is enough vacant room on 40m right now to have more one-on-one AM
> QSOs, anywhere in the US phone band. But still, we do need to have the phone
> band expanded at least down to 7100, since 7060-7125 is at best sparsely
> populated even  when the rest of the band is highly congested with multiple
> QuaRMtests.
> 
> Don k4kyv
> 
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