[CW] FCC TESTING

[Rolfe Tessem]

--On Friday, August 2, 2002 8:40 PM -0400 David J Ring Jr <n1ea@arrl.net> 
wrote:

> I have heard the story about the "evil" FCC man who reverberated the
> morse off of warehouse type of walls being "like radio" but that isn't a
> fair  test.  Very Very few of the commercial operators could copy a
> reverberated CW signal like that.  That only happens when having Long
> Path and Short Path (or some type of multipath) and it TERRIBLE to
> copy.
>
> It goes for C
>
> DAH DIT DAH DIT dit
>
> With the last dit being the echo of the DIT just preceeding it.
>
> E's would sound like I's, N's like D's.
>
> Absolutely TERRIBLE.
>
> Plus any decent FCC test had HEADPHONES!!!
>
> GIVE ME THE OLD DAYS OF AMECO CODE PRACTICE
> OSCILLATOR TUNED TO 500 CYCLES AUDIO AND HEADPHONES!!!

Boy, I don't know what FCC office you took your tests in, but in Detroit at 
least there were no stinking headphones. Just an audio amplifier turned up 
really loud and reverberating off hard government office walls, while you 
sat in your hard government issue chair, while trying to copy with your 
hard government issue pencil...

Well, you get the idea ;-).


Rolfe
W1VC
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Rolfe Tessem
rolfe@ldp.com
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.