[CW] SAQ Live Stream

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thank you for posting this. You always post good stuff. Its 
absolutely fascinating. Very good video and  the noise is very 
realistic. I am partly deaf but have a pretty good idea what it 
sounds like with all that machinery running.
   The fellow keying has a great fist. Should be a lesson to 
those who think you can't send will with a straight key. Someone 
who is worthy of having such a big voice.
    In another post you have a link to a recording of the 
transmission. You say the receiver does not have a BFO but I do 
hear a tone. Maybe just my bad hearing but I wonder if the 
receiver is a regenerator. The camera does not stay still long 
enough to see who made it. Colin Kennedy maybe.
    Thank you for posting these. They set off my firehorse complex.
     Its too bad that the name of Reginald Fessenden gets lost in 
all this. He is the inventor of much of the alternator. He went 
to GE to improve on his ideas. The project was turned over to 
Ernst Alexanderson but Fessenden turned out to be so difficult to 
work with that Alexanderson was pretty much on his own. Fessenden 
was a brilliant man but alienated everyone he worked with.
    More of the history is in "A History of Communications and 
Electronics in the United States Navy" Linwood S. Haweth.
    This machine is one of the principle reasons for the 
formation of RCA.

On 7/7/2020 7:26 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> SAQ Grimeton live stream 08:30 UTC 05 July 2020.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47HNbxNQcw
>
> The man sending did a beautiful job, it's not easy keying a quarter
> megawatt continuous wave alternator with all that noise and rumbling
> in the background.
>
> Here is a short recording of SAQ received on a 1920 receiver - no BFO
> just as it would have been received in those days during the "spark"
> days when CW started by the Alexanderson alternator and arc started
> dethroning "King Spark".
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IecCTj_ABFE
>
> Long live CW.
>
> 73
> DR
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