[Boatanchors] [AMRadio] AM worldwide

Thu Aug 23 08:55:32 EDT 2018

I was licensed in April of 1992 in Maryland as a no coder. I got my 5
wpm code worked on a Uniden HR 2510. I had a lot of fun on 10 M, the
Sun was pretty active, not at its peak, but I still worked the world
on that thing.

Then I bought an HF rig. A Tempo 2020 and discovered AM on HF and that
gave me incentive to upgrade. From there I upgraded to advanced pretty
fast. My first real AM pair was a Viking II, a model 122 VFO, and a
Mohawk. Then I got an Apache. From there my collection just kept
getting bigger. I had to give it all up and start over when I moved
though.

I love AM, hate SSB. Even back in my CB days I preferred AM. I also
worked in the broadcast industry for a lot of years at both AM and FM
and prefer AM there too. I was an engineer at one point for an AM
station and got offered the stations old bacup transmitter when they
replaced the main txer, the main became the backup and the old backup
was up for grabs for free! UHaul it away. But I had no place to put
it. It went to another ham in New Hamster. I don't remember his call
and don't know if he ever got it on the air or not.

Now I'm in an apartment and can't get on HF. Not allowed to have
antennas. :'( I've got a K7DYY Super Senior and can't use it to its
potential. I tried at 40 watts carrier with a poor antenna on my
balcony but didn't get anywhere with it. I've got indoor antennas all
over my living room, but I'm not able to work HF with them. Nobody
hears me except on 2/220/440 repeaters. There isn't much VHF/UHF
activity on repeaters or simplex around here. The repeaters are dead
90% of the time, 52 is dead air.

-- 
tnx es 73 de Randy, N3LRX/8
https://n3lrx.com

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Daniel Artaud F6BRD via AMRadio
<amradio at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> Hello
>
> AM activity is well alive in France and is growing slightly. I think we are
> around one hundred as we can have more than 50 stations during the "AM
> nights" an event which takes place 2 times per year at each time change. The
> bands used are mainly 80 m and more rarely 40 m. The equipments used are
> restored military ones, home made or commercial Heathkit, Geloso, Ecreso...
> SSB/"AM" transceivers are almost non-existent. The ART13 is the more common
> military transmitter used; some years ago it was possible to buy rebuilt
> ones (around early 60's) in original packaging for 150€.
> The power used is around 100w and up to 500w carrier.
> Apart from AM nights French AMers are used to meet on 3600 kHz in the
> morning up to 09H00 local time and in the evening from 18H00 local time.
> For more about French Amers activity see: www.araccma.com/
>
> Equipment used: Heathkit Apache w/o audio preamp/limiter, Collins ART13,
> Rohde & Schwarz ESH2, Optimod TV SAP with adaptive preemphasis modified,
> low-pass filtered to 6 kHz but still some work to do to reduce overshoots...
>
> 73 de Daniel, F6BRD
>
>
> Le 21/08/2018 à 16:18, CL in NC via AMRadio a écrit :
>>
>> As a new ham, almost 50 years ago now,  being brave enough to put a DX60
>> on 20 meters and getting 'your carrier is not nulled' reports in the era of
>> rigs that had that control on the front panel, like Swan, I worked the world
>> on 10 meter AM.  Seemed there were plenty on the air when the band was open.
>> Australia and Nova Scotia contacts with my DX60 and homebrew 3 element 10
>> meter beam were common.  England seemed to have a pipeline to my QTH, but
>> perhaps the number of stations who reported their antennas as Rhombics was
>> the cause of that.  Learned more about rhombics, single wire, multi wire,
>> low vs high, terminated and unterminated from G land than from any book.
>>
>> As I was reading a 1992 ER mag, one of the pics was of a Japanese Hamfest
>> and a note about AM activity back then in Japan.  That got me to wondering
>> if any of you know what level AM is pursued currently  in the rest of the
>> civilized world, or has it been banned in some countries?  Do other places
>> have active AM groups?
>>
>> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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