I have an Elmac AF67 and M1070 tucked away. Used it on ten a m last
cycle. Still a good, reliable transmitter.
Pat, K9JAUAt 06:24 AM 1/5/2012, you wrote:
>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
> >>>>
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