The most popular spot for AM operation on 2m is 144.450 MHz in the USA. Part of the reason for this is the availability of crystal;s on and around 8025 kHz.
Most hams who operated 2m AM for any length of time particuarly in the heyday of AM would possess a number of crystals ranging from just above 8000 kHz to about 8050 kHz. 73 - Brian "Bry" Carling, AF4K From: jon baker <[email protected]> > Just got off the ARRL website, the band from 145.500 to > 145.800 is listed as "misc. and experimental modes". > Seem AM would fit in here? Hmm, a pair of 6146's mod. > by a pair?? Sounds fun!! > Speaking of 2 meters, last weekend I built up a balanced- > line tuner for 144Mhz, fired up the D.C. to Daylight Ricebox, > and My first QSO was with Raphael(XE2OR) for real DX! > I'm talking about loading up the same 80M. loop at 33 feet > that I use on 75M. A.M.phone! Also talked to several Houston > area Hams abt. 200 Mi. from here. > Fire up those old Boatanchors, I'll listen in that band. > 73 es CUL > de AD5HR > Jon ______________________________________________________________ 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 Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
