Boatanchors...Old Military Radio Net...3.885 MHz

[wajobu]

Unca Sandy might chime in on this one...

The radio waves were STRONG this morning. I'm up here in New England and usually on Saturday morning at 5am or so I listen to the folks with their boatanchors at 3.885 MHz. The waves had a good skip...there were folks on from RI, NJ, NH and a fella with a crystal clear signal from Punta Gorda, FL (he of course was pushing 375 watts with some kind of rig from an old helicopter, I think).

I've listened to shortwave since I was a kid, and I still enjoy it...it would be fun to try HAM radio someday, but the listening is still great fun.

 

[mhardy6647]

So that's AM I assume? I have heard some AM hams at around that frequency in the evenings in the wintertime here; the audio quality of these guys is tremendous (far better than broadcast AM).

 

[wajobu]

Yes, there is one fellow from somewhere in south NJ and he has all kinds of EQ and other special gizmoes and I swear he sounds in my little headset like he is in the next room (on some mornings) and just crystal clear with great vocal rendition. Other guys sound more like the standard issue military microphone squawk.

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Yep...no reason for a ham station to sound bad. Have heard some very good ones recently.

 

[radioactive]

yep there are are alot of hams that take theyre audio seriously.there a group on 20meters around 14.180 that have and use all types of broacast gear including limiters compressors you name it they use it .as for the am net on 80meters ill have to check it out with my national nc183d .winters here so ill be also checking out 160m and see what am i can pick up there.

 

[Sandy G]

I used to listen to hams a lot when I had my JRC NRD-545 on my nightstand. 3868 & 3898 were also good freqs, even if they were on sideband. They'd get in wars w/each other, & the idiots on 3910...If a guy on 3910's radio wasn't tuned just right, he'd "splatter" on 3898, & they'd raise all hell about it. They also DID NOT like newbies-"Quermers" trying to cut in on 'em. Yeah, I know...A JRC NRD-545 ain't a boatanchor, but you can't easily perch an R-390A on yr typical nightstand, either...

 

[radioactive]

"I used to listen to hams a lot when I had my JRC NRD-545 on my nightstand. 3868 & 3898 were also good freqs, even if they were on sideband. They'd get in wars w/each other, & the idiots on 3910...If a guy on 3910's radio wasn't tuned just right, he'd "splatter" on 3898, & they'd raise all hell about it. They also DID NOT like newbies-"Quermers" trying to cut in on 'em."

ahh 3898 i remember that freq well i had it stored into the memory on my drake r8 .not exactly a boatanchor either but i use to goto sleep with the radio tuned to that frequency.it sure made for some good entertainment yrs ago.