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25 watts carrier power is plenty enough to have fun with on 80 AM. Use a good dipole up at least 45 feet in the center and pick operating times when the yahoos are fewest. Just before and during dinnertime. Mid morning weekends are good too. Stay away from giant roundtables and try calling CQ at least 7 kc away from existing AM.

You will find the east coast folks are not using mostly older transmitters anymore. Many excellent sounding signals are made with riceburners like your Yaesu. IIRC that rig doesn't use the crystal filter on AM transmit. Even if it does there are modifications which make it work better than any old tube ham transmitter ever could. Boatanchors are fun but there's no reason not to use a lot of newer models.

[QUOTE="HiDef, post: 149798, member: 7734"] 25 watts carrier power is plenty enough to have fun with on 80 AM. Use a good dipole up at least 45 feet in the center and pick operating times when the yahoos are fewest. Just before and during dinnertime. Mid morning weekends are good too. Stay away from giant roundtables and try calling CQ at least 7 kc away from existing AM. You will find the east coast folks are not using mostly older transmitters anymore. Many excellent sounding signals are made with riceburners like your Yaesu. IIRC that rig doesn't use the crystal filter on AM transmit. Even if it does there are modifications which make it work better than any old tube ham transmitter ever could. Boatanchors are fun but there's no reason not to use a lot of newer models. [/QUOTE]

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