[Boatanchors] AM Operators

[Joe Connor]

Harold:
     Right church; wrong pew on that quote. I think you're thinking of Longfellow's "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."
Joe Connor
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the 18th of April in '75;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
 


     On Thursday, October 1, 2015 7:01 PM, Norman Hairston <k4hca at windstream.net> wrote:
   
 

 Bob:

I feel your pain. I was first licensed in 1955. As Patric Henry said, 
"HARDLY A PERSON ALIVE TODAY REMEMBERS THOSE TIMES". That is close to 
the quote. Well, I suppose we are fortunate that we can still work our 
favorite mode. Though we have to compete with other modes as we did in 
the pre-SSB days.

Harold

On 10/01/15 5:32 PM, rbethman wrote:
> 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
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