[Boatanchors] [3890_AM]

[Bry Carling]

Actually there ARE AM QSOs taking place elsewhere...
(I will steadfastly maintain our amateur radio tradition of calling them QSOs rather than 
the grotesque-sounding "Qs" invented by a few contest operators who used to be CBers.)

You will find plenty of AM QSOs on lesser known AM haunts including 3837, 3870, 3875, 7160, 7190, 7285, 7290, 
7293, 7295, 14286, 21.420 etc. Yes there is some competition at busier times, but hey, AM was always a mode 
where you had to accept some QRM would occur.  (I will not call QRM "Q" either, even if some young hot shots 
try to start that nonsense too, LOL!)

73s to all - AF4K Bry
(you get one 73 each!)

> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:10:27 -0600
> From: ranchorobbo at gmail.com
> To: manualman at juno.com
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [3890_AM]
> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> 
> That is certainly true in theory but the unfortunate reality is that
> if free time is limited, you want to spend your CQing time
> productively, and that means calling CQ where AM operators are more
> likely to be listening. And on 75 m. they are usually listening
> somewhere between 3880 and 3890.
> 
> This is why attempts to CQ elsewhere have failed, because no one likes
> to spend a chunk of their free time calling CQ only to be responded to
> by undetectable slopbucket.  Those who "call CQ until I am blue in the
> face" down the band, usually wind back up in the "ghetto."   The
> solution is to construct a voice and time saving CQ Robot, (something
> I would like to do) and/or work out arrangements to operate down at
> the other end of the US phone band with other operators and try to gin
> up activity.
> 
> 73
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:14 PM,  <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
> > Any phone frequency can be used for AM. There's nothing special about
> > 3890 unless you're crystal controlled and only have one crystal.
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