[Boatanchors] AM Operators

[rbethman]

I am just as ticked off with "Appliance Operators" and "Plastic Radio" 
comments as anyone else is!

I had no choice but to go to a Solid State Transceiver.  Purely due to 
medical issues!

Try running a TS-2000 on AM and still have it sound good!

1) You won't get 25W out as the radio is capable of!  It would be over 
driven.

2) Modulation IS decreased if you want good audio!

The range of output ends up somewhere about 17 Watts, then kept down in 
modulation so it does NOT sound like garbage!

The majority of AM operators appreciate the effort taken to make their 
signals sound good!

The only way to get out to folks is to take that puny 17Watts and push 
it into a pair of 3-500Zs.

Then I can get heard.  I have checked with those that I have talked with 
and specifically asked how it sounds.

The answer, across the board, has been a resounding YES!

I certainly am not an appliance operator!  I've been at this since 1980.

The very first station was an SB-102, SP-600, and the requisite HP-23 
mounted inside the speaker.

The very next station was one I bid on with the local club.  It was an 
HT-37, SX-101A, and then I built a pair of GG-813s.  I got out a 
whopping 600W at best.

I have been running AM ever since.

I have run SSB, and that was primarily as a member of the Georgia Single 
Sideband Net.

The remainder of the time I have run AM.  The SX-101A and the HT-37 went 
to a local High School for their science class.

I've gone through HT-32s, TX-1s, BC-610s, and more radios over the span 
of 30+ years of being licensed, than I can even remember.

I am happier working AM stations and AM as a mode, than I have with SSB.

The biggest pain in the rump are SSB operators whom run an extremely 
broad signal trying in utter failure to get the AM sound out of SSB!

Those are the ones that splatter all over any band that you choose to 
listen to!

Regards, Bob - N0DGN