Man - didn't mean to stir the pot THAT much. lol But thanks for the replies.
I run a Kenwood TS-480HX. (I can hear the groans from the boat anchor crowd) haha The 480hx is a 200 watt radio with a 50 watt carrier on AM and shows 200 watts pep on an external watt meter while modulating. My name is Jeff. I am in Clearwater Florida. The email has my old call. My vanity is N0JEF. 73, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Robert Nickels <[email protected]> To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 9:00 pm Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Comment from N0JEF On 2/10/2010 6:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I have a 200 watt AM transciever What type of transceiver do you have? I'm assuming from the above that you probably have a modern all-mode HF transceiver that includes AM capability. The good news is, many of them can be made to sound terrific. The bad news is, some are pretty fussy to get set up right, and if the ratio of carrier to audio isn't correct, can really sound awful - to the point that they are unintelligible to someone listening on an AM receiver. So, just as a suggestion, I'd make sure that your radio is set to produce good quality AM first. A local ham with AM receive capability could help you out. The amount of RF power shown on the meter is not as high as you might expect, but even a good sounding 25 to 50 watt AM signal will get you plenty of contacts. 73, Bob W9RAN ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
