[Elecraft] that Drake or Collins "sound"

[Phil Kane]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:17:30 -0400, n2ey at aol.com wrote:

>It didn't have to be that way. A carrier crystal setup could have
>been used instead of audio injection. Collins made narrow
>mechanical filters that could have been used, etc.

>Perhaps Collins was concerned that if they made the KWM-2 a
>really good CW rig, it would hurt sales of the rest of the
>S-line.

  As you probably know, Jim, audio tone injection was the
  commercial standard more than 50 years ago.  Collins made great
  commercial multi-channel multi-tone HF rigs and they saw no
  reason to change a winning design.  CW is a single-channel
  single-channel application, trivial by commercial standards.
  With their commercial gear as the cash cow, why change a
  winner?

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
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