[SOC] MCW, again.

Sat Oct 6 16:22:19 EDT 2018

Keyed MCW is best received with BFO on as you then can also receive the
carrier as well.

Detection of CW is much more sensitive then AM.  Detecting MCW in CW
receive is also better.

73

DR

On Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 15:12 g4jht <g4jht at eircom.net> wrote:

> Remember MCW is just keyed AM,  so you  turn the CIO or BFO off, to
> receive it.
> You can even pick MCW up on crystal set, were as with CW you just just
> gives clicks in the phones.
> The Marconi Atlanta main ships receiver I have just bought (manual says
> 1967) has a real variable BFO and an off switch for it. Once I have it
> powered up I will try some experiments with local MF Aero beacons and
> report back what I find if anyone is interested. They sound like 800
> cycles without putting an audio frequency counter on it.
>
> 73, Dave
> EI0DB
>
>
> On 10/06/2018 02:47 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > You're right, Joe.
> >
> > I guess I got carried away with adding 400 Hz to 800 Hz coming up with
> 1200
> > HZ.  I'd do that on my receiver and it's not the tones transmitted.
> >
> > 400 Hz tone used to modulate
> > a carrier of 500 kHz, you will have carriers at 4,999,600 Hz,
> > 5,000,000 Hz and 5,000,400 Hz.
> >
> > I corrected the typo.
> >
> > With a wide receiver we heard three tones.
> >
> > I used bandwidth of about 8 kHz for watchkeeping.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > DR
> > N1EA
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 00:19 Joe Pontek Sr <v31jp1957 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This is not completely accurate.
> >>
> >> An MCW is made up of components determined by the method of generation.
> >> If standard AM method
> >> with a single tone is used, there will be the carrier and then two side
> >> tones, ie. 400 Hz tone used to modulate
> >> a carrier of 5,000 kHz, you will have carriers at 4,999,600 Hz,
> >> 5,000,000 Hz and 5,000,400 Hz.
> >>
> >> Now, depending on your receiver's band width, you might hear a single
> >> carrier at each frequency, a beat
> >> tone od 400 Hz if you hear two carriers at the same time and further
> >> mixes with a wider bandwidth.  The
> >> beat note(s) is(are) made in your receiver.
> >>
> >> In the above example, the bandwidth only 800 Hz, not like a single
> >> sideband suppressed carrier voice
> >> signal of about 2,700 Hz.
> >>
> >> Too many times, it is a P poor receiver causing garbage you hear on the
> >> bands or poorly used receivers
> >> by the operators.
> >>
> >> 73
> >>
> >> Joe
> >> K8JP
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/5/2018 1:00 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> >>> It's horribly wide and intrusive!
> >>>
> >>> It's about as wide as a SSB signal.
> >>>
> >>> About 1.2 kHz wide.
> >>>
> >>> It sounds like three carriers, say tones of 400, 800 and 1200 Hz all
> >>> sending the same pulses of Morse.
> >>>
> >>> 73
> >>>
> >>> DR
> >>> N1EA
> >> --
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