[Elecraft] REAL CW!!

[Fred Jensen]

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Much has been written on this reflector about the sound of the sidetone,
> particularly the K2's sidetone, and about stability and narrow band
> clickless keying, stable signals, with today's operators asking for
> razor-sharp selectivity in order to copy signals in a crowded band. 
> 
> Here are some recordings of actual COMMERCIAL CW maritime signals on the 600
> meter (500 KHz) band from the 1970's in European waters

Cool Ron!  The calls were different when I was a 16yr old in coastal 
marine [West coast of NA], but that *is* what 600m sounded like on the 
nighttime shifts.  I'm so used to our current near-perfect spacing from 
keyers and computer-sent CW, I have to really concentrate to copy from 
that what I used to so easily.  OK...I was younger then.  A lot of 
fists-afloat were pretty bad.  Mine on-shore was perfect, of course.  I 
don't remember spark thank God, I'd be much older now if I did and 
likely dead.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
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