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
>>>
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