[NLRS] CW Operation question

[Phil Lefever]

>This reminds me of the time I was roving in EN24 .... I had a small station
>on 1296, and the GGM multi-op station was having a hard time hearing me on 
>SSB
>and drat, no CW key along (a violation of Rule #1).   What was one to do ?
>Why, how about whistling CW into the mike !   So there I was whistling CW 
>into
>the microphone while standing in a corn field .... its hard to whistle CW and
>laugh at the same time, but we made contact on WCW USB (whistling CW, upper
>side band).

Good story Jon!

Reminds me when Kevin, N0BEL and I did a January Limited Multi at
his place in Apple Vally years ago. He had tapped the IF of his 220
FM radio and we listened with an HF radio at 455KHz. Now we could
hear Rich and Bruce out roving. At one point I try to call them
cross mode by keying the mike on the FM radio. I hear someone say
"what the heck is that?" we must have been whooping a lot as the
oscillator was turning on. Kevin grabs the radio and operates on
it a bit longer, when he returns its sporting yet another dongle
for a external key. Using a keyed transistor to mute the RF and
leaving the oscillator running did the trick. We got 2 new grids
in less then a minute cross mode!

I think that your comment on most VHF stations aren't running narrow
filters is accurate. Of course if you are the one trying to call a
SSB station on CW they have a very wide filter in use! I'd bet that
in most cases if you are within 1KHz they will likely find you.

73

Phil, KB0NES