I have been bitten by the AM bug and would like to know what to look for at some of these Hamfest. I know their will be all kind of opinions but that is what I need. The first rig I bought a few years ago with this mind was a Yaesu ft100D....big mistake. My other rig I use in the house is a Yaesu FT1000MP Mark V. I have been searching for settings to get it to sound good but not being too successful. I have the MD200 mike with it. Any help here would be appreciated too until I can find the best sounding AM rig I can find. Please steer me in the right direction of which radios from the modern rigs to the older models that are great AM radios or ones that can be made to be good AM radios. Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 13 09:16:25 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Delivered-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Received: from ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by mailman.qth.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB72859C06 for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:16:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpe-70-114-22-233.satx.res.rr.com [70.114.22.233]) by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id jADEAfB4012879 for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:10:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:10:33 -0600 From: W5OMR/Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Every day of Freedom is a good day to thank a Veteran. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Need list of good AM radios to start looking for . . . References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-BeenThere: amradio@mailman.qth.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Id: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio.mailman.qth.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/private/amradio> List-Post: <mailto:amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:16:25 -0000 John (W5HG) wrote: >I have been bitten by the AM bug and would like to know what to look for at >some of these Hamfest. I know their will be all kind of opinions but that is >what I need. The first rig I bought a few years ago with this mind was a Yaesu >ft100D....big mistake. My other rig I use in the house is a Yaesu FT1000MP >Mark V. I have been searching for settings to get it to sound good but not >being too successful. I have the MD200 mike with it. Any help here would be >appreciated too until I can find the best sounding AM rig I can find. Please >steer me in the right direction of which radios from the modern rigs to the >older models that are great AM radios or ones that can be made to be good AM >radios. Thanks for any help you guys can give me. > Well, first off you probably need to get out of the mindset that any transistorized HF Tranciever built after ohh... 1980 or so, ain't gonna suit your means. As far as a good AM transmitter, find one of the 100w models... A good working Johnson Viking II, a Heathkit DX-100, B&W 5100, Collin 32V 1, 2 or 3, etc... somewhere in the 100w range. Of course, these are -tube- radios that are plate modulated. Meaning, they've got modulation transformers, and tubes, and big heavy iron in them, with lethal voltages contained within. While it's not -always- true (The Class E rigs with Class H modulators that are all solid state), the generalized statement can be said, of the AM mode of operation: "If you want it to sound like AM, you need tubes." --- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
