1940's radio bands

[Richard O'Neill]

  Feeling nostalgic for the good old days, are we? Me too.

Richard

On 6/17/2015 8:47 PM, George Lemaster wrote:
> I was licensed in 1958. SW bands were chock full of SW broadcasts (AM) from every country and hams mostly used AM. VHF 2 meters was AM phone and FM came along later when you could buy surplus Motorola tube VHF radios in mid to late 60s.  A few rich hams I knew had SSB but most of us had receivers not stable enough for SSB reception. Lots of WW2 surplus all AM and CW of course.
> Some hams were on rtty but ham bands were cw and am phone. Military long haul was rtty and multiplexed rtty. There were news feeds on rtty.
> George
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