Hi Pat,
Is Elmac the company that made a Collins look-a-like set of radios? If so,
I have never seen them. Of course they didn't come with the quality of
Collins though!
73's
Howard #3
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
>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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