Every body that wants to run A.M. go ahead and move down to the extra band, then don't ask why A.M. is a dying mode !! A lot of "working stiff" still have to work 40 to 60 hrs a week, and for what ever reason don't have our "extra" but I really love A.M. Got to say, I'm beginning to feel like it's a one way relationship , you see. I'm not retired yet, and no I don't have a room full of old tube xmitters (but would love to have )Do have a old DX 40 that I'm close to getting on the air, and a three tube 811 amp, that may allow me to get into a short QSO with some of you. It's really sad that in order to be "in the group" you've got to run a tube xmitter and a amp, at 300 to 800 watts, other wise, your just noise, and something to be tolerated with a short reply, and then move on to another "big rig" sounding station. This will most likely be my last post, sorry about the bitter mood, just letting my feeling show I guess. Maybe after the bands get better in a few years, I can have a little A.M. fun on 10 & 20 meters.
A.M.,,,,,,,the EXTRA mode Bob Carpenter KB4WEC [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of QED Consultants Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:35 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Effort afoot to "reclaim" 3600-3700 CW subband Hi Don: what does he even mean by these percentages? if he would treat cw at abt 500 cycles then there is almost no cw use. I have been running at or below 3.7 for weeks, last night I could not find a spot from 3675 to 3710 called cq on 3725and a guy on ssb came back and commented how good the audio sounded, he said it sounded as good as AM. I told him to put the rx on AM and have a good laugh. I think I will start dropping down to the 3650 to 3675 range. Bernie ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Chester" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 4:22 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Effort afoot to "reclaim" 3600-3700 CW subband > The following message is being forwarded around on the internet via e-mail > and on some of the mailing lists. They do have a point. There is very > little phone activity in this portion of the band, now that the novelty of > the expanded phone band has worn off. Why not re-warm the band with AM? > I'll be exercising my 3620 kHz xtal a little more often. > > (QUOTE): > > "Since the changes were made taking away exclusive use of the 3600-3700 > portion of the 80 meter band for CW, I have done extensive monitoring > in it. There is very little use of this portion of the band now. I > have heard some ssb activity in the upper 25 khz (3675-3700). Percentage > of use during a one month period is less than 10%. From 3650-3675, > percentage is less than 7%. From 3600-3650, percentage is less than 4%. > > That is an awful waste of band space. There has been ample time for > someone to make use of these frequencies. Since they are not being > used enough, I think it should be given back to CW/RTTY/Digital. > During contest weekends, the present allocation of frequencies for > CW,etc. makes it almost unusable for net operation and QSO's. > > Who else should I contact with these recommendations and statistics? > I will be glad to do so. Me and thousands of other CW ops would like > to see this portion given back to us. > > Thanks for your help and 73, > Rodney Baker, W5DY > STX Section Traffic Manager > Tex CW Asst Net Manager > TCC Member > ORS (END QUOTE) > > Click or copy/paste the following link to read some of the replies to this > message: > > http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/2009-January/subject.html > > > Don k4kyv > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. > > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ > http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > 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. > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio 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. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio 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.
