[AMRadio] AM worldwide

[Don Rasmussen]

Hi Guys,

           I put a Heathkit Apache back on the air, after finding that it
needed new filter capacitors BADLY.      I was listening late one Winter
night on 80M and heard CQ DX from SLOVENIA on about 3798 kHz SSB.
All I had was my Apache, so I called him with about 100W of AM......and he
came back !           I told him I was running AM and he got very
interested, said that he had been an "AMer" until a few years ago, and we
had nice long chat.      He continued to call CQ DX afterwards, but all of
those QSOs were just hello - goodbye contacts.

Don, kd2fo

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:01 PM, <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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
>
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