garigue wrote:
You might as well leave out the
AM modulator since it will be useless today. Back in '66-'67 there
were still some people on AM (mostly on 80 and 10 meters), but today
it's completly gone.

OH, Really!?? Snert! - Sporf! - Snurt! TNX for the laugh!

Jonesy
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Yepper ....just like the fellow on 2 meters said .......nobody uses CW
anymore .....its DOA . I just like to put up my feet, lean back, and open
an Iron City Beer and enjoy the quality of those AM signals ... and this
from a 99.99% CWist. My buddy built on of those rigs in 66 and it worked
fine with his Mor-Gain antenna ...even with the hardware cloth safety mesh
covering the chassis. Lots 'o fun.

God Bless and 73 all ..... KI3R Tom in Belle Vernon PA


Well I havn't heard any AM on the HF bands in a long time, but I stand
corrected that some people still use it. Granted it's in the minority
and on "calling frequencies". I don't think those screen grid modulators
found in novice rigs were of much use though. They didn't have
much punch and poor audio. If you are going to go AM, a real plate
modulator is the only way to go. (I shudder to think what a plate
modulation transformer would cost these days....)