[Elecraft] [K3] AGC-OFF

[Rick Dettinger]

My introduction to Morse code was in 1955.  Our Boy Scout Troop used  
an Instrograph to teach the code for a merit badge.  Its been 55 years  
and I still consider the note from that machine to be the gold  
standard for code practice oscillators.  I don't know if it was a pure  
sine wave, but it was music to my ears.  I know that real music is  
definitely not a sine wave.  I suspect that spark was about as far as  
its possible to get from a pure sine wave!


73,
Rick Dettinger   K7MW


>
> Also, all the concern over a 'sine wave' tone is a modern  
> affectation that still gets a chuckle out of me and many other OTs.  
> Professional CW operators and Hams alike seldom cared if the tone  
> they heard was a sine wave, a square wave or even some odd-ball  
> sawtooth or triangular waveform. For many, many years my personal  
> favorite sidetone monitor was an RF-activated sawtooth wave  
> generator. I operated some gear in professional/military  
> installations which the "sidetone" heard while sending was no tone  
> at all, just a confused bunch of bloops, squeals and blasts of hum  
> from a monitor receiver. No one thought anything of it.
>
> The bottom line is expectations change. Back then we thought nothing  
> of taking five or ten minutes to tune up on a different band. Many  
> Hams built their stations to operate on only one band.
>
> And some of us are still out there, Hi!
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
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