I don't understand why anyone would get upset or even care about essb (or AM), if its done on a band that is not packed with signals. If there is loads of space, what is wrong with making the audio sound at least as good as a cheap cell phone?
On the AM side, on the east coast of the US, the AM guys stick in a very small window and put a lot of operators on one frequency, yes they may take up a lot of bandwidth, but there may be 8 to 10 guys on frequency and many more listening. Some SWL people find AM interesting, as ssb was not much of an option on many receivers. That gets people interested in ham radio, that is what got ME interested in ham radio, many years ago with a poor receiver. I have designed and built my entire AM station, with 3 separate transmitters and 2 receivers. Besides the K2, I have no commercial gear except a Collins 32V3 in the shack. How many design and build there own high power multi-band SSB rigs? My guess would be not that many. Many AM operators restore old gear or homebrew tube or class E stuff, and LEARN electronics, even if its out of date. I think people should be free to learn things and not just operate telephone sounding rigs they mail order. Another thing that interests me is that I listen at night and there are a bunch of the usual suspects talking about nothing for the most part (80 meters). Its so important to fit a few more appliance operators on the band to talk with friends about their pickup truck that you have to rain on others parade? That's hardly vital communications. I don't understand why people cant play with their radio stuff without others getting all wound up about it. Live and let live... Oh, ever listen on FM mode on a busy band? Tons of noise and garbage, I don't think you can use FM unless you have a very low QRM level. Brett N2DTS > > The question I ask is this: > > What about FM? I really like FM voice. Sounds really good, > the equipment is > simple and there's a lot of it in use by amateurs and others. > > Why can't I run FM voice that's 15 or 20 kHz wide on 75 > meters? I think it > would sound really, really good. Much better than even AM, > and immune to summer > QRN. The transmitter would be very efficient, modulated at > low level and > amplified in highly efficient Class E stages that are very > simple and don't have to > be amplitude-linear at all. I'd be experimenting with new things. > > What's the problem? > > 73 de Jim, N2EY > > > ************************************** > Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
