On the kwm2 and kwm2a, cw was an afterthought, and done in a poor way. I think they used audio tones into the mike circuit for CW, and maybe the ssb filter?
I don't think those rigs were great CW radios. Not sure about the drake 2b, the r4c I had was very nice for its age, and with some mods can be as good as the modern stuff I hear. Mine sounded quite nice stock, under normal conditions anyway. I don't suppose any of the old stuff would be any good in any contest, but maybe some of it sounded much better on all modes. Not everyone contests or goes after rare DX, but everyone seems to be stuck with poor sounding radios these days, because they are built for contests, or for general coverage from 50KHz to 50MHz, or use noisy parts, or poor designs, or whatever.... Brett N2DTS _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
