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In Reply to: RE: Michael, what are you using on AM? posted by Michael Samra on July 02, 2009 at 10:15:52
Boy, I haven't been on the air with AM in years...not since too very long after Ozona Bob, W5PYT, and Sulphur John passed away...there was a whole bunch of us here in Texas that used to populate 3880...now, all the old timers I knew are all SK's...I wonder whatever happened to Astabula Bill and Boraxo John...and what about Otis...Ah well, I still have the Barker and Williamson built 1951 BC-610-I and Collins 32V-2 as transmitters and a rack with a 51S-1, 51J-4, R390/URR, and R390A/URR with Hammarlund SPC-10 sideband slicer, and an HQ-180A sitting just to the side of the rack, all hooked up to a Westinghouse KM-2 antenna mutlicoupler (FILLED with Amperex 6922's!) and a Johnson automatic turnover switch...using either the 610 or the 32V mutes all the receivers, so I can use whatever I want whenever I want...
The two other facts of Hamming that I really enjoyed were the Molniya orbit satellites AO-10 and AO-13...still have the Yaesu FT-736R and AZ-EL antennas set up for them...too bad they're gone...that and RTTY, ran in the RTTY Roundup a few times just to run it and not really score...used my FT-990 and Alpha 76P...
But I used to listen to SW a LOT, I even have a Sony SW-77 and ICF-2010 sitting in the bottom dresser drawer in the bedroom...I'm an insomniac and used to listen every night to drift off to sleep...sometimes to my Ham buddies, sometimes to the Beeb...but most of what I used to listen to is no longer there...Radio Tirana...the big Soviet propaganda stations...Swiss Radio international...Deutsch Welle....now I have to listen to them over the Internet if I want to hear them...I guess I started in about 1964 or 65, back when there were really a lot of things on SW to listen to...now, with the costs associated with running megawatts of ERP, most broadcasters have either ceased operation or moved to other venues, like the Internet...
Oh well...things change....
And, the Drake R-8A is a great receiver...I have a Universal Radio tweaked R-7A hooked up with a TR-7A, a "C" Line, and a TR-4, more pieces of any brand of radio gear I have excepting Collins...always wanted an R-8, but ended up with an Icom R-71A instead...
DE KI5SL
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