[MRCA] Pogo Stick on Sunday Night CW Net

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Tue Jul 21 16:53:36 EDT 2015


At 06:48 AM 7/21/2015, Rob Flory wrote:
>Good job, Breck.  Only you would overcome 
>"crystal-controlled, weak, and on AM is no way 
>to go through life" by running such a set on 
>CW.  How did you key it?  Once upon a time I 
>keyed a Northern Radio oscillator by wrapping a 
>thin wire around the pin of a buffer amp tube 
>and applying grid block keying.  Worked 
>Europeans on 10m with its one watt of output.

Yes, Breck's feat got me to thinking how to key a 
BC-611 and feed it to the outside skywire... 
:-[   (Maybe I'll wait until this coming winter when the
QRN is nil  --  does it have to be inside the case to qualify?)  ;-)

Perry   w8au



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