[CW] Help answering a question... please

[Tomas (NW7US)]

Hi,

The following is an e-mail I received from Alan.  I don't have an answer for 
him, but I thought if I'd post his question here, we could get an answer from 
one of you.  If you have this information, would you please let him (and carbon 
me) know?

Thanks!

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> From: acaldwell@aol.com
> Date: 11/7/03 1:36:38 PM

We are having a lively discussion about what is produced when a mile button is 
used to send Morse Code. The radio in question was in Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 
Electra 10E on July 2, 1937. She supposedly had left the key behind so had to 
use the mike button. The radio is believed to be a Western Electric RA-1 HF. 
More information may be found on the TIGHAR.com web site but I think I have it 
all correct.

The specific question is in regard to the dynamotor churning up each time the 
mike button is depressed or if it does. The actual concern is whether fairly 
clean dots and dashes could be sent or whether the nature of the radio would 
have it difficult to send readable code. would some beginning characters be 
lost? Would some dots and dashes be difficult to discern?

Alan L. Caldwell
Major USAF Ret.

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73 de Tomas, NW7US (AAR0JA/AAM0EWA)
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