From: Jordan Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Some of my earliest AM memories are of W7AMK on 160 meters AM every
morning in the late 60's... I first heard him using a Sony transistor
radio tuned to the very top end of the BCB.... I used to put the radio
near the copper tile strip that ran around the kitchen counter and listen
to the Pac N.W. AM guys on 160... Then the bug hit..... 73 de Jordan...
The late 60's... hmmm, let's see. That's when the fury of Vietnam was at
its peak, flower power was still in bloom, the streets were aflame while
Urban Renewal was demolishing the the hearts of our cities, Incentive
Licensing had just gone into effect and... that's about when AM was supposed
to have died. Those of us who stuck it out on AM received unbelievable
flack for not going along with the ham radio "establishment", dumping our AM
rigs in the landfill and buying a transceiver. The major magazines,
including QST, refused to even acknowledge our existence. The AM'ers were
just a bunch of riff-raff and troublemakers, kind of in the same category as
the dirty pot-smoking hippies who were conspiring to rape our daughters
while they dismantled our society.
Just think. If those guys in the Pac N.W. hadn't kept on running AM, Jordan
might not be a ham today. How's that for our desperate need to recruit
newcomers to amateur radio?
Don K4KYV
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