[NLRS] CW Operation question

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer]

I looked at recent (at the time) Tentec Omni V or VI for use as a super
IF for transverters but they run CW on LSB even on 10m, so I rejected
them. The Corsair II does run CW on USB on 10m. But I've not built any
transverters yet. I've been told the Omni VI can run reversed, but those
who told me that don't know how to cause it.

My Kenwood experiences don't include the 930 and 700, but have included
a couple 120, a 130, a 430, 440, and 450. All those I used ran CW on
USB. I tested an 830 but I don't remember which sideband it ran on CW.

A solution I sketched out for the 726 and 736 but haven't yet built was
this:

I'd leave the radio on USB, and build a external low distortion keyed
tone generator. That tone generator would feed the radio audio to make
CW. I'd have to take great care to not create harmonics in the audio
chain because those would show up as additional carriers. Other benefits
possible with this is that the external box could sequence the control
circuits before feeding the audio to the radio and so prevent the race
condition of RF output appearing before the control output, that can be
deadly on external amplifiers and preamps. I also planned to include the
capability of running near full power CW with 10% power on SSB
simultaneously so I could tell off the local no-CW lid who called QRZ
every time I called some distant CW station while allowing me to
continue to call the weak signal.

Otherwise my partially built Hohentweil 2m transceiver promises to solve
all those problems while including a super receiver. All such projects
are on hold while I build a new hamshack to stop paying rent and
unreasonable utilities caused by this old farm house.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

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