Hi Dave, Howard Mills W3HM and I and a few other fellows have set up an AM net at 1700 on weekdays. It is totally informal and whoever is there first is the person that calls CQ. Some times there is no one around do to other things going on . When I am ho0me I always try to be on. Join us! -73- Peter K2LRC
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david knepper Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:50 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Re: GB> AM vs SSB??? Is 3805 Khz a new AM calling frequency? I heard an AMer get bounced about operating there. Dave, W3ST/W3CRA Publisher of the Collins Journal Secretary to the Collins Radio Association www.collinsra.com - the CRA Website Now with PayPal CRA Nets: 3.805 Mhz every Monday at 8 PM EDST and 14.253 Mhz every Saturday at 12 Noon EDST Collins Chatroom - Daily at 4 PM EDST on 7.208 Mhz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Re: GB> AM vs SSB??? >> The main reason ssb will sound better on a collins than on some of the >> cheaper rigs is that their audio chain has 1% distortion instead >> of the usual 10% distortion, and they also use a decent loudspeaker. > > Actually, I've never thought Collins SSB sounded all that terribly good. > The KWS-1 has a bit wider transmit filter than the other usual suspects, > but > in general, the transmit bandwidth is too narrow. There are important > audio > queues in both the low end and high end (up to 4Khz or so) speech spectrum > that are completely missing. This isn't just a Collins problem -- I'm not > singling them out to pick on. And the typical receiver, with it's shiny > 2.1 > Khz mechanical filter or equivalent, chops those important queues out even > if they were being transmitted. > > I am not a proponent (nor opponent, either) of high fi SSB, but you don't > have to go too far beyond what is the politically correct norm to get a > signal that can actually be well understood (per Bacon's point). > > And of course there are other factors -- tuning errors, distortion > products, > a heavy hand on the "processing" control, what-have-you. AM signals can > be > mushy and hard to understand, too. > > Grant/NQ5T > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
