[MRCA] BC-342 and end of displays

[mkdorney at aol.com]

If you're not going to talk to anybody, what's the point?    The only thing that just listening proves is that the receiver section works.  At vehicle and radio meets. that's no fun. 
 
At a couple of our events, we do try to talk long distance (  80 miles , so far to no avail - radio problems on either my end or the distant station end, but we'll keep trying).  We also set up a local net (0 to 2 miles distance) that we've had better luck with.
 
Mark
WW2RDO
 
 
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In a message dated 10/11/2017 2:22:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, WA5CAB at cs.com writes:
 
I didn't say that it worked great, just that it worked.  And I didn't necessarily mean that you had to be in 2-way communication with the SSB stations.  What I said was that there is always something to listen to, if for no other reason than to show that the radio actually works to people walking by.  For actual 2-way communications with an SSB station on the other end of the circuit, you will with the BC-654 have to switch back and forth between AM and CW.  If just listening, you can always turn off the breakers in the PE-103.  Enforcing radio silence is one of their functions.

 Plus, the BC-654 is the only common HF set I can think of where the receiver and transmitter share a common mode switch.

 Robert Downs - Houston
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 MVPA 9480

 In a message dated 10/10/2017 21:15:31 PM Central Daylight Time, mkdorney at aol.com writes: 
Well that's great for monitoring, I suppose, but it's not so good if you want to transmit voice ( it's impossible to do in CW mode).  Not to mention the constant operation of the PE-103 when the BC-654 is operating in CW-mode.


 Mark
 WW2RDO



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