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Date: | Mon, 5 May 2014 19:06:22 -0500 |
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Mike,
The Viking II runs about 120 conservative watts, well
modulated. Uses plate modulation. I've never run more than 200
watts on A M with a Johnson Viking Valliant. I have used the Viking
with both my National and Collins receivers, and with many more in
days gone by! A M is fun and there are an interesting bunch of
operators. When I got licensed in 1957 A M was still rather widely
used but sideband was coming on. Many a battle was waged!
I had the A M gear back in the day and then went through another
round more recently. Still fun but I just don't have the room on the
bench any more. By the way, watch just above 29 mhz. There is
usually A M between there and 29.1 and your forty watts would do
okay. Lots easier than forty or seventy-five.
patAt 05:06 PM 5/5/2014, you wrote:
>Pat:
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>What receiver do you use the Viking II with? Do you have an
>amplifier to run a little heavy metal on A.M?
>I'd love to get into that, I listen to A.M every chance I get with my FT-102.
>Tried breaking in to a group but they didn't hear me as I was only
>running about 40W, even though my rig is supposed to have 100% modulation.
>
>73:
>Mike VO1AX
>
>P S
>Are you the Gentleman I sold the Sure 440 desk mic to a number of years ago?
>I sold it to a guy on this list.
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