[ARC5] Netting Switch

[Robert Eleazer]

In response to David's informative reply to my Whistle Stop tuning question I have a couple of questions:

1.  Do the Command Set transmitters let the oscillator run all the time?  If not, why not?  It would seem to be a superior approach for frequency stability and crisp keying.

2.  If you have a receiver and transmitter fired up and sitting essentially side by side as they commonly were, even without the Zero Beat mods that David describes, can't you receive the transmitter oscillator to some degree with the receiver?  With my R-11A and a short length of wire I can recall being able to receive the 455 KHZ IF of my GE multiband receiver from several feet away.  Admittedly, if this were the case QSOs between aircraft using AM voice would be like having the BFO on all the time, but I would guess that the "BFO effect" would be slight enough not to be a real problem.

Thanks,

Wayne