Shockware you are correct I have not heard him and unless he's a ham I probably never will. If he is a ham then someday I might catch him on the bands. I will however concede the point that 131 has good am audio based your knowledge of him.
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There are some very good pre-amps out there, actually some really good ones but most are NOT installed in the typical 11 amp. I used to use a tower mounted gaAs FET preamp on VHF that really helped pull in the weak signals.
Preamps installed in 11m amps generally have a higher noise floor than the radio they are connected too and therefore while making the meter read higher, generally cannot detect a weak signal as good as the radio alone. Along with the fact they have no front end filters and are wideband they tend to overload themselves and often provide such a strong signal to the radio it tends to overload as well. Lots of people hear strange signals with the preamp turned on because of the overloading.
Until then AM Hi-Fi is alive and well here without hearing the SSB users complain that we're 10 KHz. wide the second you send audio quality that sounds like you're in the same room. I also like the fact I don't have to wade through an hour at the round table to make a transmission and sit through a dozen belches in the mic during the process. Just saying.....