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« on: August 11, 2014, 03:07:46 PM »

Every Sunday and Wednesday night at 8:30 PM (Eastern) and ends promptly at 10:00 PM on 3960-3962 kilocycles (depending on QRM).
KC2RJR, KD2CDU and myself W2ZZA hang out and discussion a range topics from Gardening, to Cooking, to Broadcast engineering, and other Techie stuff.  We run FULL POWER AM and 100% modulation. (Life is too short for QRP)
There is AM life outside of the AM window. Join us.
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« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2014, 04:30:19 PM »

And, we also have lots of AM activity between 3700 and 3730 KHz and sometimes even below 3700 KHz. Then there's the AWA net on 3837 KHz on Sunday. I wasn't sure there was any life left in the imaginary AM Window.  Cheesy
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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2014, 04:55:22 PM »

Some of the best QSO's I ever had where on 3705 AM Pete.  Just a different mind set there..
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2014, 01:47:04 PM »

Every Sunday and Wednesday night at 8:30 PM (Eastern) and ends promptly at 10:00 PM on 3960-3962 kilocycles (depending on QRM).
KC2RJR, KD2CDU and myself W2ZZA hang out and discussion a range topics from Gardening, to Cooking, to Broadcast engineering, and other Techie stuff.  We run FULL POWER AM and 100% modulation. (Life is too short for QRP)
There is AM life outside of the AM window. Join us.


For sure.

I have even been known to strike up a QSO on 3.685.

Glad to see others are going outside the WINDOW as well.

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« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2014, 12:33:47 AM »

Good to hear of this activity.

BTW, AMers have been operating outside the "window" for decades. Welcome to the party.  Grin

IN reality, the window never existed. It was a figment of a few fertile and/or misguided minds.
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« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2014, 09:04:18 AM »

Steve.

You are so right .. AM window is just a SSB  thing. I operate AM Phone on the portions of the bands designated for Phone operation. In the case of 80/75 meters extra class, 3600 to the top of the band..   And why not.. From time to time someone protests but I always make sure there is NO SSB operation within my bandpass before starting a QSO or calling CQ.  I conciser +-6kc as my bandpass as I roll my audio off at 5.5kc  This seems to keep the squawk boxers happy.
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« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2014, 11:22:22 AM »

Every Sunday and Wednesday night at 8:30 PM (Eastern) and ends promptly at 10:00 PM on 3960-3962 kilocycles (depending on QRM).
KC2RJR, KD2CDU and myself W2ZZA hang out and discussion a range topics from Gardening, to Cooking, to Broadcast engineering, and other Techie stuff.  We run FULL POWER AM and 100% modulation. (Life is too short for QRP)
There is AM life outside of the AM window. Join us.


HMMM!  Maybe I'll check it out.  Using a 300 - 400 watt carrier class "E" transmitter with a Flex 1500 as a driver to the analog to digital converter.

My station isn't nearly as pretty as yours

Al


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