[Elecraft] that Drake or Collins "sound"

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/24/07 4:54:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, k2asp at kanafi.org 
writes:


> 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?

Because they were making a ham rig, not a commercial one.
What the commercial services do isn't always the best thing
for amateur radio applications. 

There's nothing theoretically wrong with audio injection for CW.
But when a rig that cost as much as the KWM-2 did in its time
expects the op to listen to 2 kHz tone on CW, doesn't provide
a narrow filter even as an option, nor RIT or AGC OFF, 
I call shenanigans.

The KWM-2 was meant for *amateur radio* SSB, and it had no
peer in that role in its day. 
 
All IMHO

73 de Jim, N2EY


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