Hi Bob... Please don't be so quick to "put down" that type of AM operation!
Some 14 years ago, when I was just beginning to wonder why I was so heavily into DX'ing & contests, I stumbled upon an AM window frequency...at the time, the only way I could join the fun was just through the "...rice-box-into-an-afterburner" technique. How lucky I was, indeed, that the guys I worked at the time were so supportive & encouraging---sure, they strongly recommended that I secure a "...real" AM rig, and eventually I did just that---SEVERAL of them, in fact! Still, were it not for those first diminutive baby steps, I might NOT have gone beyond the rut that I THOUGHT was Amateur Radio 'way back when... Now, if we all just KEEP on encouraging newbies to buy vintage stuff, it won't be long before a Ranger hits a cool grand in the pricing department...and I'm NOT so sure that that'd be a good thing...! Anyway, my $0.02 worth... ~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "RJ Mattson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM from a ricebox > I can't understand the fascination of hooking a rice box to a linear amp for > AM? > I find a qso with this setup boring. > Give me an op with a DX-100 or equivalent and the conversation is > interesting and exhilarating. > 73, > bob...w2ami > http://www.qrz.com/callsign/w2ami > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
