I have pretty good luck with dipole at 50 feet just running my yaesu 1000MP at 30 watts on 75 m. in the afternoons. I can have a pretty solid QSO with stations 100 - 200 miles away. Jeff maybe you should try 75 m. or 40 m. in the afternoons.
Todd, what kind of gear did the elitist radio snobs run? What was approved of and sneered at? Just curious. I'm still pretty much running what I brung hi hi. 73 Rob K5UJ On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Todd, KA1KAQ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Welcome aboard, Jeff. There's a good group of AMers around your area > including Warren W1GUD who is a reporter for the Fox affiliate in > Tampa. Pretty sure he's a member of this list, so he may jump in. The > get together on the lower part of the 80m band on weekends IIRC. > > As far as running a ricebox on AM, as the saying goes - ya run whatcha > brung. The days of the elitist radio snob in the AM community are > pretty much gone. As well, most of the new rigs sounds pretty good > right out of the box, even better than some of the old tube gear. Most > guys that I know are just happy to have another AMer join in > regardless of what you're using, so long as they can hear you. > > And as someone said, on AM tune the rig for about 25% of its rated PEP > output, shut off your processor, and bring up your gain until the > needle kicks on peaks. Away you go. > > 73 - > > ~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
