[AMRadio] AM worldwide

[w5jo at brightok.net]

Charlie,

It has been a while but there was activity in Australia.  The man I talked 
to regularly is now SK, VK2BA (if my memory is not to bad).  He had a 
regular contact with a station in North Carolina who is still around but I 
have not heard on AM in quite a while.  When David was alive there were 
several operators in Australia that operated AM.

Currently there are a few hams in Europe that operate AM and regularly post 
who they hear on our companion site AM Fone.  There are stations in several 
countries including the UK, France and some of the low countries.   I don't 
know about any other activity but there may be some.

Jim
W5JO

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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