[AMRadio] Cut up vibroplex clarification

[K9FH]

On 3/31/2019 12:17 AM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> 
> Quoting Donald Chester <k4kyv at hotmail.com>:
>> I knew an elderly ham back in the 1960s, Conrad Bridges W4EBG (now SK)
>> in Paducah KY
>> Don k4kyv
>>
> 
> Boy, that name.....
> 
> "Con"  aka "The Duke of Paducah"  and "The Mouth of the South"
> 
> Con and some WB4 would park on 75 meters and rag on the ( new ) Single
> Sideband Operators for hours at a time.   Con had a monster AM signal
> into North Alabama.  I would have loved to have seen that AM rig.
> Con was a LEGEND !!
> 
> Don W4DNR

No doubt about it! Con and WB4AOE(??) definitely kept AM alive on 75
meters during a time when AM nearly disappeared due to the incessant
jamming by SSBers.  They were about the only AM stations I heard for
several years on 75.

Phil - K9FH


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