Other than the "sounding better" reason for using AM, are there any technical advantages to using it over, say SSB or digital voice?
Other than the "sounding better" reason for using AM, are there any technical advantages to using it over, say SSB or digital voice?
Antique modulation..:-P
Though it can sound perfect with the right gear
SSB is what i use and with correct settings of alc, good microphone, some equalizer settings ( EQplus here) it also can sound very good.
For AM i use the FT 100 with AM 6 Kc Xfilter, 25 watt carrier and modulated to 100 watts it sounds very nice ( according to others) with the standard handmike.
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I like AM, because done right, it sounds really good. However, SSB with my Kenwood TS-850 and DSP-100 set to wide transmit... "ESSB".
It sounds just as good, and is more efficient. I can pinch it down to 2.2 K wide with the DSP-100.
My Ten Tec Pegasus is even more versatile, but it's not quite as listenable as the TS-850 is on receive.
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SSB requires more complex equipment to demodulate and present the received signal - BFO, filtering and all that.Originally Posted by KC2UGV
An AM transmission can be copied by a simple receiver - which may consist of just a tunable tank circuit, diode detector and headphones.
The advantage lies at the receiving - not the transmitting - end of the link.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
That's pretty much the only one I could come up with, receivers are so easy to build. A coil, a sliver of graphite, a razor blade, and a crystal set headphone, and you got a AM receiver.
In addition, both ends of an SSB link must be fairly stable in regards to drift. An AM link is more tolerant of a few hundred hertz of drift on either end. As long as the transmitted signal doesn't slip too far out of the receiver's passband, decent copy can still be maintained.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
In double blind testing of the ability of those in a test group to correctly copy a voice signal during conditions of fade, noise, etc., AM always wins over FM & SSB.
It's just another mode. AM is fun. So is ssb Cw psk fm . Whatever your into. USE !! the bands !
AM is more fun, especially when it's done with fire bottles, heavy metal and my favorite...
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