[Milsurplus] Comparison of Navy vs Army Air Corps equipment

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At 07:36 PM 7/2/06, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>On 2 Jul 2006 at 16:30, Bob W7AVK wrote:
>
> >
> > Ken - Good run down. Wasn't the TCS keyed by relay and as such made a
> > very slow speed and poor CW transmitter / receiver combination?
>
>Yes. I was thinking of mentioning that I don't remember many TCSs
>being used on CW, but almost all the ARC-5 transmitters I remember
>were...but they all, without exception, had been "modified" for cathode
>keying.

Right on about the "ham modifications" eliminating the keying relays.

But the TCS was not "very slow speed and poor CW."  It will do 25 wpm 
and more with a bug and still not show any evident shortening of 
characters, and most all have hard, but chirpless, keying.  The only 
thing lacking was/is a sidetone.

Perry   w8au