[AMRadio] AM worldwide

[CL in NC]

As a new ham, almost 50 years ago now,  being brave enough to put a DX60 on 20 meters and getting 'your carrier is not nulled' reports in the era of rigs that had that control on the front panel, like Swan, I worked the world on 10 meter AM.  Seemed there were plenty on the air when the band was open.  Australia and Nova Scotia contacts with my DX60 and homebrew 3 element 10 meter beam were common.  England seemed to have a pipeline to my QTH, but perhaps the number of stations who reported their antennas as Rhombics was the cause of that.  Learned more about rhombics, single wire, multi wire, low vs high, terminated and unterminated from G land than from any book.

As I was reading a 1992 ER mag, one of the pics was of a Japanese Hamfest and a note about AM activity back then in Japan.  That got me to wondering if any of you know what level AM is pursued currently  in the rest of the civilized world, or has it been banned in some countries?  Do other places have active AM groups?

Charlie, W4MEC in NC