[CW] Help answering a question... please

[Ronald KA4INM Youvan]

   From my HAM web site at:  www/qsl.net/ka4inm/amelia.html
<    I just read, with great interest, an article in the April 1998 issue of
CQ magazine, about the WORLD (last) flight of Ms Amelia Earhart and Mr.
Fred Noonan in 1937, not the least was the removal of the C.W. key (to
save weight) because both she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disliked
working C.W." (read neither were competent C.W. operators)
and
  Mr. Bill Orr W6SAI goes on to report: because the removal of the trailing wire 
antenna (with it's motor driven reel, which is an antenna tuner, the length 
played out sets it's resonant frequency) left only a fixed length "V" antenna 
running from the tip of each (of the two) vertical fins (rudders) to a post 
mounted near the front of the plane, an antenna that worked so poorly that on
3.105 MHz their 30 watt transmitter delivered only about 1/2 watt and on
6.21 MHz only about 3 watts (due to mis-match and loading coil losses) to
the antenna.

   I doubt they would leave the CW equipment behind, then try to work cw with 
the am equipment.

> 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. 
-- 
      73 (= Best Regards) de: (= from) Ron ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com
     100% Slackware LINUX since 7-97 (still free!) SENT D&T are UTC
          Visit my HAM Web SITE at: http://www.qsl.net/ka4inm