[Elecraft] Commercial CW vs K3

[Fred Jensen]

For those who are interested,

http://mikea.ath.cx/www.n1ea.coastalradio.org.uk/index.html

hosts some recordings, a couple from the 20's [I am old but no fooling 
guys, 20 years before I was born :-)] and some from the 70's.  Even from 
the 70's, they sound like I remember the Holy Frequency from the 
mid-50's.  They're zip files, you need to download and unzip them.

If you were in the [apparently-unmentionable-activity] this weekend, 
compare what you heard to these recordings.  Even in the 50's, and 
certainly in the 70's, the ham bands were filled with stable, clean 
signals.  This last weekend, watching my P3, I was stunned by how close 
signals were packed, and that I could slip in between them and make a 
contact and not hear any QRM.

Jeff, N6GQ, was at K6IDX and hugely strong here [23 or so miles, LOS]. 
I heard him, or anything he was emitting, on my K3, with "stock" roofing 
filters, *only* when I was tuned to him. It's easy to spot the 
unmodified FT's, but I know a bunch of the "500's" were K3-KPA500.

Take a listen to what "professional radio" sounded like not so horribly 
long ago.  I think we're pretty good ... for "amateurs."

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
- www.cqp.org