6m AM alive and well!

[Eugene Balinski]

   Don't forget the weekly 6M AM "net", each Saturday
morning on 50.400 MHz at 6:00 AM (local).   Yup, Six AM, at
6:00 AM.  Multiple stations can normally be heard at least
here in the northeast. 

73
Gene K1NR  



On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:31:56 -0500
 Brian Carling <bcarling at CFL.RR.COM> wrote:
> 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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