[CW] FCC TESTING

[Donald Chester]

>From: "David J Ring Jr" <n1ea@arrl.net>

>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.

Sometimes during aurora flutter it sounds like that.  I don't think the old 
radio inspector meant that code over the radio was going to sound anything 
like code over a speaker in the marble-wall building.  He just meant that as 
the code was muddled up in that room, it gets about as muddled up over the 
air due to QRM, QRN, QSB, poor sending, weak signals and all else that makes 
copy difficult.  It was a real "test" to copy code under adverse condx.  
When I took my Extra, I was the only applicant for 20 wpm, so I got to sit 
right in front of the tape recorder, about a foot away from the speaker, and 
reverb wasn't a problem.

Don K4KYV

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