[MRCA] SCR-284 SSB/CW Receive - was BC-342 and end of displays

[mkdorney at aol.com]

Again, if you're not going to communicate, what's the point?  
 
Mark
 WW2RDO
 
In a message dated 10/11/2017 1:06:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, timsamm at gmail.com writes:

 
Hi Guys - 
My SCR-284 receives SSB just fine in the CW mode as Robert described.  It can also receive/monitor CW and SSB all day without the PE-103 running - just set the R/T Standby Switch to "OFF" while doing this.  


I've worked cross-mode with it many times, clumsy but certainly workable...
Tim
N6CC


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:22 PM, WA5CAB--- via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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
 wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
 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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