6m AM alive and well!

[Brian Carling]

This just in from the R.A.I.N.
(Radio Amateur Information Network) via
Technocrat.net

THE PAST REVISITED: 6 AM ALIVE WITH THE SOUND 
OF VINTAGE AM 

In DX, the past really came to life for Dale Svetanoff, 
WA9ENA on Sunday, December 26th and Monday December 
27th. 
This as a myriad of old time full carrier A-M stations showed 
up on 6 meters during the on and off two day band opening. 
Dale reports over the V-H-F Reflector that he was unaware 
the and was open when he casually turned on his rig at about 
22:15 UTC on Sunday afternoon. It so happened that the rig 
came up on 50.4 MHz which is the 6 meter AM window. 

Dale heard several strong signals and decided to see who they 
were. In the next 30 minutes, Dale worked 9 stations in New 
England, all on AM and all running truly vintage A-M gear. 
Dale says it was a blast to hear rigs such as a Clegg 66er, a 
Multi- Elmac AF-68, Gonset Communicator II, and the 
Knight-Kit TR-106. The TR- 106s were only running 7 watts 
of output, but they were S-7 to S-9+ at Dale's Q-T-H in Iowa. 
WA9ENA even worked a station running a truly rare Heath 
Seneca transmitter with its up and down controlled carrier 
screen grid modulation. 

Dale says that was running 25 watts out of an Alinco DX 70. 
He says that the fellows out there in W-one land gave him 
reports as high as 20 over 9. He adds that more than one 
of the guys in North East said that they never expected to 
work DX with their vintage 6 meter rigs.


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