Is there a "National AM Simplex Frequency on 2 Meters?

[kd4e]

Unless you are going mobile with those rigs do
you really need a "national" 2m AM simplex
frequency?

Why not just pick a couple of freqs and publicize
them to the Ham clubs in the area and send them to
QST to recommend for your area and announce them
on the local FM repeaters?

Once you get a core group meeting regularly on a 2M
AM Net in your area you should be able to grow the
level of interest.

Just a thought ...

> One of my next projects is the repair/restoration of a couple of Gonset
> Communicator II's and one Communicator III.
> 
> I asked our area ARRL Frequency Coordinator if he could identify an AM
> simplex frequency in the Albuquerque area.
> 
> He said 146.52 and as a secondary, 146.58.
> 
> They're simplex frequencies, all right, but are heavily in use by FM folks
> (I'm one of them, too!)
> 
> I suggested to him the two formerly common AM frequencies in this area --
> that were determined years ago by the easy availability of surplus
> crystals -- 145.44 and 146.80.  He indicated that these frequencies are in
> use by repeaters in our area.
> 
> I see a couple of 2 meter AM nets listed in the back pages of Electric
> Radio -- I've suggested those frequencies to our Coordinator but haven't
> heard back from him.
> 
> So -- could someone on the list please tell me if there is a (or are
> several) suggested AM 2 meter frequencies that I should request from our
> Coordinator?
> 
> Thanks, 73, and Happy New Year!
> 
> Mike/
> 
> Mike Langner
> K5MGR
> Albuquerque, NM


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