AM operator, Fernando, CE3EII

[Brian Carling]

Dear FERNANDO!

GREAT to hear from you in Chile, OM!!

YES! There is STILL AM activity on HF!

It is found every day on 1975, 1985, 3880, 3885,
7290, 7295, 14280, 14286, 29100 kHz

There are PLENTY of stations on AM in the USA
these days! I run several FB old AM rigs here!

I will copy this to several of the AM ops in the USA and maybe some
more of them will write and encourage you!

I hope you don't mind that I forwarded you rcomments to them.
It is just VERY exciting to hear from a South AMerican station that
might get back on AM soon!!! I hope that it is OK with you that I did
this!

I love the old Johnson equipment! I hope you can find another old
VIKING 500 transmitter!

Will you be joining us soon? It would be a delight to hear
you on AM!

73 for now - Bry, AF4K / G3XLQ

On 22 Jan 98 at 14:45, Fernando wrote:

> Dear Brian,

> >****************************************************
> >*** 73 from Radio AF4K/G3XLQ Gaithersburg, MD USA  *
> >**  E-mail to:  bry at mnsinc.com                     *
> >*** ICQ 6124470  ***
> >**  http://www.mnsinc.com/bry/                     *
> >****************************************************
> >AM International #1024, TENTEN #13582. GRID FM19. Using a SWAN 250 on 6m,
> >Other rigs: Valiant, DX-60/HG-10, FT-840, TM-261A, Ameco TX-62, Gonset
> Comm. III
> >TEN-TEN #13582, DXCC #17,763 Bicentennial WAS

> Reading all your credits, wanted to ask a question: Is there still AM
> activity in HF? In the past (80's) I was very active in CW and AM,
> specifically in the lower portion of 80 and 40m. I own a restored Viking
> Five Hundred TX and a very good 75A-4 RX. When the Viking came to my hands,
> the power supply and output coil/loading capacitor were missing. So it was a
> great job to restore the set with no information at hand. I did it with
> pleasure, and the results were outstanding. After I completed my highschool
> (1986), I had to move and unfortunately, all my housings thereafter were not
> large enough to accommodate antennas and even the rig itself.

> Nowadays, there is little room in my house to set up a shack, but I don't
> know if it would be worth to restore all the equipment again to go on air in
> AM when everybody might have moved to "modern" modulations. Can you tell me
> anything about this?

> Best regards,

> Fernando Jorquera
> fjorquer at myfamily.org
> CE3EII
> Santiago, Chile

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