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10 meter band 1955
- Thread starter Mudfoot
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Yep, The Phil-Mont Radio club is in my area (S.E. Pennsylvania). I have seen this old film before (it’s on their website), and love the boat anchors and the tanks (radios and automobiles).
Too bad hams don’t really use 10m for mobile use these days. Guess they don’t like those longer antennas on their hoopties, but in places like PA, with it’s rolling hills, 10m (and 11m) are pretty good at getting over those hills. I have used 10m and 11m for many years while mobile to work my local friends, and it is fun. But I guess when you got a Baofeng and a repeater, or VOIP “radio”, you feel like you are something special.
Too bad hams don’t really use 10m for mobile use these days. Guess they don’t like those longer antennas on their hoopties, but in places like PA, with it’s rolling hills, 10m (and 11m) are pretty good at getting over those hills. I have used 10m and 11m for many years while mobile to work my local friends, and it is fun. But I guess when you got a Baofeng and a repeater, or VOIP “radio”, you feel like you are something special.
Notice this is all on AM back then. No loud white noise or squelch trail like FM would have.
I used to do 6 meter AM on a Lafayette HA-460. I had a few nice QSOs on 50.400 during e-skip openings, and a couple of us used to have a Sunday morning ragchew on 50.400.
To their credit, there are some hams local to the region that are doing this now. One area club has a 10m AM net during the week, and several of the participants are using modified older CB radios so they can re-crystal, re-tune them to get to 29 mHz.
Another club is doing a 6m AM net, although I found it funny when they first started doing it, and many were complaining that their new rigs (like FT-991a or other modern radio) sounded like crap on AM. Well, yeah...duh ??? Now they all have tube rigs, and complain about maintaining them...again...duh !
That’s why I stopped messing with all this over a decade ago. It is great fun, but it is like maintaining an old car. Every time you take it out for a drive, something breaks.
To their credit, there are some hams local to the region that are doing this now. One area club has a 10m AM net during the week, and several of the participants are using modified older CB radios so they can re-crystal, re-tune them to get to 29 mHz.
Another club is doing a 6m AM net, although I found it funny when they first started doing it, and many were complaining that their new rigs (like FT-991a or other modern radio) sounded like crap on AM. Well, yeah...duh ??? Now they all have tube rigs, and complain about maintaining them...again...duh !
That’s why I stopped messing with all this over a decade ago. It is great fun, but it is like maintaining an old car. Every time you take it out for a drive, something breaks.