Ron, In 1946, the only way I could get from South Africa to Mauritius as a 16 year old was to sign on as "Spark's Helper" - at least I had passed the ZS ham tests! The main Tx was a single tube 1.5kW oscillator on 500kHz and the other two frequencies. The standby was a rotary quenched spark which did not need any bandswitch - it was probably DC to Light. Not sure whether it used RF or sound for communicating. Sparks used to wind it up for testing, he said, in the middle of the night, methinks really to wake up the ten elderly female passengers on board. Cannot imagine K2's keyer running that thing!!
73, Geoff GM4ESD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 9:08 PM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] OT-Preserving CW memories I bet a LOT of those ops would have loved to have a K2 for the keyer and, at times the filters. The 500 calling frequency was often a cacophony of signals all on top of one another in the passband of receivers of the day. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
