[Elecraft] OT: MCW

[Ken G Kopp]

Now you're gonna make me cry out of nostalga ....

Shades of "my" TBL with the MG way below decks near the bilge ... and
the PA tank coil was large 'nuff to hold several bottles on trips back from
SA.

BUT the companion receiver was a 51S!  (:-))

There was a KWT-6 / URC-3 for HF

73 / SU de K0PP / WTEI / WPD, etc
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> In the marine CW service in the late 50's, nearly all traffic on the Holy
> Wavelength [600m] was MCW.  After all, it was the worldwide distress
> channel.  A lot on working frequencies was too.  Unlike MCW on the VHF ham
> bands, the RF carrier was also keyed, but in either case, it was
> double-sideband amplitude modulation.
>
> Shipboard transmitters usually employed motor-generator sets to get