[Boatanchors] Slightly OT - Poor Man's Voice Keyer Progress

[EP Swynar]

Hi John,

Ham radio ingenuity (in the grand traditional mode of the amateur as
"...tinkerer and experimenter") at one of its best!

Congratulations---you've just shown that one does NOT require a
state-of-the-art, digitized "Banzai 2000" commercial after-market /
off-the-shelf appliance option to accomplish your goal...

I salute you!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John P." <jpetrocxme at yahoo.com>
To: <amateur-repairs at yahoogroups.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>;
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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Slightly OT - Poor Man's Voice Keyer Progress


> I picked up one of those OLD Lucent digital phone answering machines at
the local thrift store for $2.00. Connected the speaker output directly to
the phone patch input on my SB-101.
>
> I recorded a "CQ" on the out-going announcement.
>
> BTW, I left a 5 sceond pause at the end of the CQ message so that I would
have time to un-key the mike after "calling CQ" and before the "Beep".
>
> IT WORKS !!!!. Admittedly the impedance match causes a loss of audio
quality but that will soon be solved with an audio transformer.
>
> I did put a $1.99 switch in the circuit to the phone patch output and an
RCA jack on the back of the device.
>
> TOTAL COST so far is about $4.50.
>
>
> Comments welcome!!!
>
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