[Boatanchors] A short Vent " HA "

[arnold sias]

HA!  When I got my novice license in 1953 and working cw in novice band no one was ever on the same frequency.  I would get a reply 20 khz up or down. plus or minus, from my cq from my crystal controlled 15 watt output transmitter frequency, tune my receiver to the other persons reply and we would have a fine time and when I went back to the other station I would compensate for my receiver drift by retuning slightly since we were both crystal controlled.   I was lucky to have two crystals in the novice band back then.  Who cared!

Van
K7VS

From: Raymond Cote 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:47 PM
To: David C. Hallam 
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] A short Vent

Right on David!!!!


Raymond Cote
KD9CCZ



> On Dec 16, 2014, at 15:31, David C. Hallam <dhallam at knology.net> wrote:
> 
> Has the art of using the tuning knob been lost?  Being a boat anchor operator occasionally I may not be exactly zero beat when I return a call to another station.  I try my best but sometimes.  I realize that for net operation or part of a group you need to be on frequency.  But in a one on one QSO can't the other operator touch the tuning slightly to tune my transmitted signal?  I will retune my receiver if he comes back slightly off of mine.  Can a few 10s of Hz make that much difference.  I started in the rock bound CW era where you never knew where the other signal would be.
> 
> David
> KW4DH
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