[CW] Fwd: SUPER-BUG by UA3AO

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW]

Richard,

You are exactly right.

Fessenden also did the first broadcast of Continuous Wave (CW) using a
Alexanderson Alternator operating aproximately 60 kHz.  So that get's you
out of being "off topic" - this after all is a CW list - and the Alternator
was the first CW producing transmitter.

Dr. Fessenden played the violin and sang: "O Holy Night!" on Christmas Eve
December 24, 1906 and read the story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.  A
fitting tribute and a man who knew where his awesome gifts came from.  He
was an outstanding chemist and physicist and excelled at teaching and at
research and development.  He had many patents, among which was
radiotelephony and the fathometer.






*"Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we Let all within us praise
His holy name Christ is the Lord Then ever, ever praise we His pow'r and
glory ever more proclaim His pow'r and glory ever more proclaim" *

December 25, 1906 and repeated on New Year's Eve December 31, 1906 from the
Umbrella antenna at Brant Rock, MA which is about a mile from me here.

73
DR



On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW" <
> cw at mailman.qth.net>
> To: "Kate Hutton" <katehutton at gmail.com>; "CW Reflector" <
> cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] Fwd: SUPER-BUG by UA3AO
>
>
>
> You can see the method of making dashes better in this video his made of
> one of the original keys as was used by the best Soviet telegraphers during
> World War II and after.  He sends entirely in English (did you understand
> the other was in Russian, or that UA3AO was sending poor English with too
> many errors?).
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6z7-d1fiI
>
> This second key was made by Soviet Russian machinists for the elite group
> of best high speed telegraphists.
>
> Even the best users of bugs run into a speed barrier where they cannot make
> faster dashes, this results in what I call "Flight Radio Officer" or "South
> American" sending as it was very popular there, I can hear the difference
> between that and Erie Canal or Great Lakes swing (Click here for TWO
> recordings of W0BMU, Howard "Tex" Harvey
> https://archive.org/details/W0bmuHowardtexHarveyW0bmu ) sending which is
> at
> a slow speed and is just a "Morse Dialect" where the dashes are always
> longer and just not at high speed.  The best operators can send beautiful
> code up to about 35 wpm but any faster most of them send 35 wpm dashes and
> 40 or 50 or &c. wpm dashes - the dashes are too long or way too  long.
> Also what happens in Flight Radio Officer sending is since the dashes
> don't match anyway, the operator sends them at 25 wpm so now you have 40
> wpm dots and 25 wpm dashes.  They knew what this was because at night and
> the land stations did it also especially at night for "operator to
> operator" information that wasn't a Telegram.  For telegrams everyone
> settled down and sent about 27 wpm with well shaped code.
>
> Don't miss the W0BMU recording.  Tex lied about the age requirement to get
> a job as radio officer on a Lake Erie Barge memory tells me it was about
> 1923 (Tex died around 2005 or so), he still had the Blue based Vibroplex
> Blue Racer he used in the early 20s. which had the call signs of the
> various barges he used - all four letter call signs, I seem to remember
> they were inverted from the "W calls East of the East Bank of the
> Mississippi River, K calls to the West of the Mississipppi River rule of
> broadcast stations which also shared the four letter call sign group:  KAAA
> to KZZZ and WAAA to WZZZ.  There were some errors in broadcasting like KDKA
> in the East and WOAI in the West.  I never proved this that K was from the
> East Coast and W was from the West Coast when it came to ships.
>
> Don't miss Lery's demo to me.  I did not see what was so special about his
> key, I never even saw his fingers hit the paddle on the right, but with the
> slow numbers in the video above I could see it, and now when I watch for
> it, I see it in the newly made key he just had made for him.
>
> The W0BMU or the other recordings at http://www.tinyurl.com/djringjr/ are
> well worth listening to.
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
>    The story is that ship calls were four letter and the East and West
> call  K and W assignments were reversed from land stations. Supposedly KDKA
> got a call intended for a ship.  I also have  not been able to find any
> substantiation of this although it may have been true. One would think the
> old ITU directories would show it but the only one I've ever been able to
> find is from the 1960s and its difficult to tell what the ship's port of
> registration is.
>     Early radio station licenses were issued by the Department of Commerce
> and later the Federal Radio Commission.  There are records on the FCC web
> site showing the early broadcast assignments.  KDKA was the first
> _commercial_ license issued, that is as opposed to experimental calls.
>  About a dozen licenses were issued late in 1920. KDKA was the first and
> Westinghouse also got WBZ and WJZ, which were number 2 and 3 (by memory)
>  and KYA (Chicagor originally) another of the first dozen or so.  At the
> time three letter calls were issued to land stations.  I also do not know
> when the convention of issuing three letter calls to land stations and four
> letter calls to ship stations started but many early ship stations also had
> three letter calls.
>     Because of the discontinuity caused by WW-1 and the govenment siezure
> of all radio stations it is very difficult to assign any prioity to
> broadcasting other than following the war.  However, the first expeimental
> braodcast seems to have been made by Reginald Fessenden using a modulated
> arc and high power carbon microphone.  This is all a bit OT on a CW list:-)
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
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