[Elecraft] Eagle keying

[Steve Ellington]

Sir:
To my knowledge, all TenTec rigs that ran 100 watts always used a tiny reed 
relay to switch the antenna from xmit to recv. Only their low power rigs 
used pin diode switching for this. The little relay was so quiet that you 
had to put your ear on the cabinet to hear it however and it caused a lot of 
folks to believe none was present.
How about a nice HW-16? No relay!

Steve

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Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Eagle keying


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> "Steve Ellington" <n4lq at carolina.rr.com> said:
> I used the Eagle while there for one cw QSO while at the hamfest. The 
> keying
> elay was loud enough to be heard above the crowd which was a deal breaker
> or me.
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> Sorry to hear that T-T has moved away from one of their claim-to-fame 
> features--PIN diode QSK.
> I have a 30-year old Argosy which did QSK so silently and so well.
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> I hear there's a company somewhere in California--Aptos, I think--which 
> still knows how to design radios with silent QSK.  :-)
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> 73 de k3yd
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