I'm replying to one of these messages at random.
I think we conflated KK3F's QSO with CO8LY with the chirping signal,
thinking of chirps gone by. There were plenty of them, not only from the
developing world but, earlier, from the U.S.
This recording sounds like a spurious emission (commonly called a spur) from
an old transmitter being used in the Straight Key Night QSO Party 100 KHz
down the band. It's sometimes hard to know whether you have really peaked
up the carrier or whether your driver or final tube is oscillating at the
same time and radiating an unstable, raw signal on another frequency.
A few years ago, I was working the ARRL DX contest with my Drake T4XC in the
20 CW band, but I had improperly adjusted the plate tuning and loading. I
got a QSL card from a W5 who was part of the Tin-Can Sailors Net, saying
that W3IUU was QRMing their net in the phone band. I verified that this
could have happened, and compensated for this in future contests.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Dresser
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 3:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: About the Chirp Recording
>
> Tom,
>
> When I was a nervous Novice, I monitored my CW signal by using my Heath
> AR2
> which, among other things, had no BFO. However, it did have a Q-
> multiplier,
> so I adjusted the Peak control until it started to go into oscillation,
> which gave me a BFO of sorts. Every once in a while, it would stop
> oscillating, which meant I had to readjust it to get back my "side tone."
> One of the many joys of operating a low budget station. Eventually, I got
> a
> new tube for the BFO, and things got better.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 13:32
> Subject: Re: About the Chirp Recording
>
>
> > You're probably right, Kevin.
> >
> > Now, you've got me trying to recall how I monitored my CW tone back in
> the
> > late 1960's when I had my novice and used a straight key.
> >
> > I did it somehow, but can't remember how! (grin)
> >
> > 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kevin Nathan" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 11:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: About the Chirp Recording
> >
> >
> >>I think he was definitely sending with a hand key and probably didn't
> have
> >>a
> >> side tone. Wow! Brought back lots of memories of early novice
> listening
> >> though on the bottom end of 80 meters.
> >>
> >> Take care all and very 73.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Kevin :)
> >> Amateur Radio: K7RX
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: For blind ham radio operators
> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >> On Behalf Of Tom Behler
> >> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 06:36
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: About the Chirp Recording
> >>
> >> Mike:
> >>
> >> All I can say is that I've heard chirpy signals in my time, but nothing
> >> that
> >>
> >> quite compared to that one.
> >>
> >> I guess the thing that interests me is how the guy wouldn't know about
> >> the
> >> quality of the CW note, unless, of course, he had no way to monitor the
> >> CW
> >> side tone.
> >>
> >> Thanks for sharing this with us all.
> >>
> >> 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 8:30 AM
> >> Subject: About the Chirp Recording
> >>
> >>
> >>> Thanks to all who asked for, or commented on the file, and to Buddy
> >>> for posting it.
> >>>
> >>> Someone asked how I recorded it. The recording was made on that little
> >>> Wilson digital recorder that is sold by American Printing House for
> >>> $34.95.
> >>>
> >>> This no frills recorder has no line level input, so the only recording
> >>> option is the built in microphone.
> >>>
> >>> I dropped the file onto the computer, trimmed out the worst fades, and
> >>> converted it to an MP3.
> >>>
> >>> Regarding the comments about chickens and ducks:
> >>>
> >>> My wife, K5KKD, heard the signal as it was being recorded, and
> >>> asked me if Donald Duck was a ham.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Mike Duke, K5XU
> >>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
> >>>
> >>
> >
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