I had a Knight R100A rcvr with the Valiant.
A.S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Sanchez" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs


> HI ALL!
> I had an Elmac AF67 with the M1070 matching power supply as my first
> transmitter with an old military receiver of some sort that must've 
> weighed
> at least 100 pounds that covered 2 thru 22 Mhz. I had two XTALS on 80 and 
> 1
> on 40 novice bands. After upgrading to Conditional license I used the 
> Elmac
> on CW with its internal VFO--it had just a small amount of chirp. Upgraded
> to a Viking Valiant, then to a TR4. Sure had a lot of fun! I monitored my 
> CW
> by turning down the RF gain on the rcvr.
> 73's, A.S., WA7FXB
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
>
>
>> That was my first transmitter, too, Tom, a DX-35.  I operated on 40 and
>> had
>> a xtal whose tripple harmonic allowed me to work 15-meters Novice band
>> then.
>> I well remember that rig and the stupid 75 volts on the cathode-key
>> circuit.
>>
>> And, for Howard #3, the P2000CW was the accessible predecessor of the LDG
>> talking wattmeter, except its output was in CW and considerably more
>> accurate.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 3:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
>>
>>
>>>    Mike:
>>>
>>> It's all coming back to me now..  Your first approach is exactly how I
>>> monitored my CW note when transmitting.  I had an old rock-bound Heath
>>> Kit
>>> DX35 transmitter, and a Lafayette receiver whose model number I forget,
>>> and
>>> made many CW qsos that way back in the day.
>>>
>>> Thanks for jogging my memory here.
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:49 PM
>>> Subject: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
>>>
>>>
>>>> For Tom, and anyone else who has become curious about this subject
>>>> after hearing that amazing combination of chirp and very raw note that
>>>> I posted:
>>>>
>>>> Until Novice operators could use the full featured rigs such as the
>>>> Kenwood TS520 and Yaesu FT101, the way most of us monitored our CW
>>>> signal as Novices was to simply not mute the receiver, and back the RF
>>>> gain control down to a very low setting when transmitting. Thus, we
>>>> heard our transmitter more or less as it sounded to everybody else. I
>>>> say more or less because if you happened to have a ground loop, or let
>>>> your receiver get overloaded by your transmitted signal, you could get
>>>> some false indications that were really problems which were local to
>>>> your shack, and were not actually being transmitted for the rest of
>>>> the world to hear.
>>>>
>>>> The Heath HW16 Novice transceiver had a built in side tone for
>>>> monitoring purposes, but that side tone sounded pretty awful. To clean
>>>> up that problem, many people simply removed the neon bulb from the
>>>> side tone circuit, and were then able to monitor the HW16 transmitter
>>>> through the receiver. This also made it easier to get the receiver and
>>>> transmitter on the same frequency.
>>>>
>>>> There were also numerous circuits which were designed specifically as
>>>> external CW monitors. My mention of finding one of those solid state
>>>> ice cube size monitors from the late 1960s a few months ago prompted a
>>>> few messages on this list about various monitor circuits.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>>>>