In a message dated 7/24/07 4:54:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> audio tone injection was the > commercial standard more than 50 years ago. Collins made great > commercial multi-channel multi-tone HF rigs and they saw no > reason to change a winning design. CW is a single-channel > single-channel application, trivial by commercial standards. > With their commercial gear as the cash cow, why change a > winner? Because they were making a ham rig, not a commercial one. What the commercial services do isn't always the best thing for amateur radio applications. There's nothing theoretically wrong with audio injection for CW. But when a rig that cost as much as the KWM-2 did in its time expects the op to listen to 2 kHz tone on CW, doesn't provide a narrow filter even as an option, nor RIT or AGC OFF, I call shenanigans. The KWM-2 was meant for *amateur radio* SSB, and it had no peer in that role in its day. All IMHO 73 de Jim, N2EY ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _______________________________________________ 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
