[Boatanchors] [3890_AM]

[Paul Baldock]

If the band is open (which it is most days in daylight hours) you 
will most always find someone listening on 21.430MHZ

- Paul   KW7Y


At 05:52 AM 2/17/2016, you wrote:
>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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