[CW] Fwd: Re: SAQ Live Stream

[John]

Yes, thanks! While the whole video is awesome, the CW sent with the 
straight key is magnificent. I really enjoyed that

John K5MO



On 7/8/2020 12:10 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     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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