[FedCom] A1 WOODS CORNER

[Facility 406]

On 7/25/2026 08:52, Marcie via FedCom wrote:
> Just a thought I had at work abt this ID ...if I remember correctly
> "A1" is a mode indicating CW from my Ham days well A1A

A1A:

"Low-speed data:  A1A Signalling by keying the carrier directly, a.k.a. 
continuous wave (CW) or on–off keying, currently used in amateur radio. 
This is often but not necessarily Morse code."

Could also be:

A	Double-sideband amplitude modulation (e.g. AM broadcast radio)
1	One channel containing digital information, no subcarrier
A	Aural telegraphy, intended to be decoded by ear

Funny how "CW", when used to send, or describe Morse Code, or as defined 
above, "a.k.a. continuous wave (CW) or on–off keying", is absolutely NOT 
"continuous wave", unlike, AM, or FM, which certainly are, for the 
entirety of their use.  Morse Code, by nature of design, is not 
continuous throughout it's use, what with all those dots and dashes, and 
what-not.  Odd how the exact opposite of continuous, came to be called 
continuous, not to be used with the continuous signal from an 
oscillator, whether AM, or FM, when NOT sending Morse Code, something 
else, or nothing at all.

Don't even get me started on "balanced line", which is so unbalanced, 
both relative to itself, and it's surroundings, as to not be usable 
under most conditions, unlike coaxial cable, which is so balanced 
throughout it's length as to be relatively impervious to it's 
surroundings.  Then again, "balanced line" was already in use by the 
time co-ax became a thing, and two wildly different things can't be 
called the same thing.

Yeah, there's a lot of stupid stuff in radio...

Kurt