[AMRadio] Blast from the past

[manualman at juno.com]

There was some discussion several years ago that a League worker was
going to approach the VHF/UHF Band Planning Committee to request an AM
calling frequency for 2 meters at approximately 144.270 MHz. That
evidently never went anywhere. Maybe, since 2 meter AM might be
considered local area communications, unless you're running a Clegg Zeus
and a 17 element beam to really reach out, it would be best to localize a
2 meter AM calling frequency that the local participants could agree on
rather then an across the board 2 meter AM calling frequency.

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:15:54 +0000 (UTC) CL in NC via AMRadio
<amradio at mailman.qth.net> writes:
> Was searching for info on an established 2 meter AM calling freq. and 
> found the 6-7 year old AM Phone posts, plus some QRZ posts.  Did one 
> ever get established?  Is there one that is not a band plan freq but 
> is just used as one?  I've used 144.22 just to keep the AM  rig 
> limbered up, talking to a buddy about 30 miles away.  I got  around 
> to a long put off project of getting an old RS PRO-2 tuneable VHF 
> set to use as a monitor.  It is a dual band with AM and FM, only 
> have 15 bucks in it, and all that was wrong was a blown fuse.  It 
> has excellent sens, in the 0.6uv range and 50.4 tunes in fine, as 
> does 29.5 to 29.7 for 10 meter FM.  As to stability, I thought I 
> might have to go to xtal control, but when tuned to 50.4, it picks 
> up a signal less than 1uv from 50.3 to 50.5, so will probably hear 
> anything there.,  I injected the right freq to force the Hi-band VHF 
> to pick up 144.2, putting it into the accessory crystal socket for 
> fixed freq use, the tuneable LO slug would only get 
>  it as far as 148,  the receiver worked fine, so one of those Mouser 
> PLL chips set to the right spot would give me 2 meter AM monitor 
> capability, but what freq to monitor is the issue.  Guessing it will 
> be just as broad on 2 as six, so one crystal would cover +/- 100KC.
> 
> Charlie, W4MEC in NC