At 06:30 PM 2/10/2010 -0600, you wrote: >KJ4DJF, first, what is your name? It is always good to have a name to >direct comments to. > >I'm interested also in finding out what your 200 w. AM transceiver is. > I am not familiar with any recent ham rig that is a 200 w. >transceiver but I am not closely following the new gear now. > >What you write about operating may be true part of the time, but if >you have a signal that can be heard, most AM ops will recognize you >without too much delay. Unless you have a very poor antenna, 200 w. >should be pretty good copy on 75 meters. That's about what a Valiant >puts out. You could find a clear frequency and call CQ. > >Give us a bit more information like frequencies you have tried to >operate on, and what you are using for an antenna and rig. I promise >people will be eager to work you. There is little or no cliquishness >in AM.
I'd been off the air for several years, got my old Heath station up and running at about 15 watts, tossed my call in the pile a few times until I was heard, and was in a huge round table on 3.885 in no time. I love AM... Dave WB4IUY ______________________________________________________________ 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
