Now we're talkin'!

[KC9SQR]

I'm not claiming it, but I did see it somewhere, I think someones signature tag...

2/3's of ham is AM ;)

[X-Rated]

Ah, a 60' grounded folded unipole will outperform a broadcast tower unless it's a half wave on 160.

A halfwave vertical is kickass. We have three 50kW AM radio stations in the neighborhood here. WGN 720, WBBM 780, WSCR 670. These all use half wave verticals. And excellent groundplanes.

[W3WN]

I'm not claiming it, but I did see it somewhere, I think someones signature tag...

2/3's of ham is AM ;)

That sounds like WA3VJB.

[KC9SQR]

That sounds like WA3VJB.

I'm pretty sure I even saw it on here, I just for the life of me can't think of who has it
haha

[KC9SQR]

SERIOUSLY??? I can't even search for it for crying out loud lol
The following words... That was the whole damned search hahahaha

"The following errors occurred with your search

1. The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
   2/3, of, HAM, is, AM"

[W3WN]

I'm pretty sure I even saw it on here, I just for the life of me can't think of who has it
haha

I don't remember seeing it here, but I do believe it was Paul's signature tag at one time.

His current tag still refers to Ancient Modulation, but no longer uses that phrase.

...and I really, really miss my HT-37.

[WX7P]

I don't remember seeing it here, but I do believe it was Paul's signature tag at one time.

His current tag still refers to Ancient Modulation, but no longer uses that phrase.

...and I really, really miss my HT-37.

It's our own hamguy, KA8DKT, I think is his call.

[XE1/N5AL]

I'm not claiming it, but I did see it somewhere, I think someones signature tag...

2/3's of ham is AM ;)

I'm slow today, it took me a while to get the joke! I kept erroneously looking at it from the perspective of how much power is in the carrier vs. how much power is in the sidebands. But, it did occur to me that if one harbored a grudge against hams, he could say: "2/3's of HAM is AM, and 2/3's of AM carries no intelligence". It's not my belief, so I hope nobody here will beat me up! :shock:

[N1LAF]

LOUD SOLAR RADIO BURST: The weekend solar activity forecast called for "quiet." In fact, says amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft, "it was really loud. On Saturday, Feb. 2nd, there were several strong solar radio emissions including one super-strong Type III burst at 1954 UT. I captured it at 28 MHz and 21.1 MHz as it totally drowned out a shortwave voice transmission." Click to listen at:

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[kb2vxa]

"A halfwave vertical is kickass. We have three 50kW AM radio stations in the neighborhood here."
The only one in the NY market is WABC that saturates ground wave coverage and covers a large area of the continent at night. Trouble is it's not clear channel and on a winter night in the secondary contour Rebelde in Cuba straps it. The world's first (1920) commercial station KDKA covering western PA by day and eastern NA at night pulled a boner a few years ago. If a .5 wave antenna is good a .64 wave is better but there's a fly in the ointment they didn't see. Having a minor lobe at a high vertical angle at night there is tremendous phase distortion in outlying areas of Pissburg and trying to get a license modification from the FCC is like pulling hen's teeth.

Eh, Phil K2PG being a broadcast engineer copied a broadcast antenna design, the grounded vertical folded unipole. It's a half wave antenna slightly shorter than a quarter wave having the 90 degree (current) loop at the top. That gives the same low angle as a full half wave so no wonder his 1KW "clear channel" AM station blankets North America 9+ at night.

OUCH! That solar burst is the loudest I ever heard, sounds like a ton of gravel falling on a tin roof.

The glow of a 4-400A on a cold winter night is almost as good as sitting by the fire.