[Boatanchors] 160 and 75 AM Freqs

[w5jo at brightok.net]

There is a group of SSB operators on 1.990 that range from about Plano, TX 
(the Texas blowtorch) to up near Southern Kansas.  All of them are along the 
border of the states of TX, OK, KS, AR and LA.  The one near Plano sounds as 
if he has 2500 watts into a perfect antenna system and feeding his audio 
into the back of some transceiver.

He causes me so much trouble on 1.985 with weak stations that I don't 
bother.  There are a couple of others that are strong as well but they are 
much further away from me so not as big of a problem.  I would imagine that 
the Plano, TX station would really give Dave problems.

At one time the stations on 1.917 or 18 operated in the evenings on 1.915 
until a group of stations along the Canadian border began on 1.913 so the AM 
crowd shifted up a couple of Kc. for the same reasons.

Jim
W5JO

-----Original Message----- 


There is some AM activity now down around 3740 and below but as to how
much I don't know.   What or who is "the texas blowtorch?"  I used to
have trouble on 1980 with mixing of local stations on 1160 and 820.

Rob
K5UJ