[TenTec] AM, was "Just noticed ..."

[geraldj]

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From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
To: geraldj at weather.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Cc: ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net
Sent: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:55:01 +0300
Subject: Re: [TenTec] AM, was "Just noticed ..."

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:42:16AM -0600, geraldj wrote:
> > Some SW AM Broadcasters have been running SSB AM for years.

And you don't have the phase differences in propagation between the two side bands to 
sound bad at times.

73, Jerry, K0CQ
> 
> It makes sense to them, it saves electricity, it reduces adjacent channel
> interference, and it's 100% compatible with the "legacy" radios.
> 
> As for ham radio, it may not make sense. It does not produce the "broadcast
> quality" voice that some people want. Depending upon the radio, and how
> it is designed and aligned, it may sound wonderful or it may sound bad.
> 
> It's like many other "compatability" modes. It works, but it may not
> work as well as the original.
> 
> IMHO if you want to join an AM net, it gives you the capability. If you
> want to keep alive AM as a mode, and preserve that part of the radio
> art, it won't.
> 
> It's like CW, Ten-Tec rigs are designed to do CW well, some of the competition
> is designed to do SSB well and include CW because they think they have to,
> but almost no one will use it.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
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