[NLRS] CW Operation question

[Dave Aho]

Seems like a lot of work to run with when one can just
nudge the dial a bit...*L*


--- "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer"
<geraldj at isunet.net> wrote:
> 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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