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[Rob Atkinson]

Hello Daniel,

Are you saying that in France, the AM power limit is 500 watts carrier
modulated 100%?

If that is correct, that is excellent!

I believe in DL land, AM is illegal  :(

73

Rob
K5UJ


On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:20 AM Daniel Artaud F6BRD via AMRadio
<amradio at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> AM activity is well alive in France and is growing slightly. I think we
> are around one hundred as we can have more than 50 stations during the
> "AM nights" an event which takes place 2 times per year at each time
> change. The bands used are mainly 80 m and more rarely 40 m. The
> equipments used are restored military ones, home made or commercial
> Heathkit, Geloso, Ecreso... SSB/"AM" transceivers are almost
> non-existent. The ART13 is the more common military transmitter used;
> some years ago it was possible to buy rebuilt ones (around early 60's)
> in original packaging for 150€.
> The power used is around 100w and up to 500w carrier.
> Apart from AM nights French AMers are used to meet on 3600 kHz in the
> morning up to 09H00 local time and in the evening from 18H00 local time.
> For more about French Amers activity see: www.araccma.com/
>
> Equipment used: Heathkit Apache w/o audio preamp/limiter, Collins ART13,
> Rohde & Schwarz ESH2, Optimod TV SAP with adaptive preemphasis modified,
> low-pass filtered to 6 kHz but still some work to do to reduce overshoots...
>
> 73 de Daniel, F6BRD
>