On 3/21/2012 2:03 PM, Andrew Siegel wrote: > It > would be interesting if we had the option in modern rigs to "dirty up" > our transmitted CW note.
Perhaps we could call it, "personalize our transmitted CW note?" Sounds better than "dirty up." And, this is NOT a request for a K3 firmware change to allow personalization of CW notes! Rotary spark operators sometimes had a foot pedal similar to a sewing machine pedal with which they could "personalize" the note [such as a "note" was with a rotary spark gap TX] by speeding it up and slowing it down while sending. What truly intrigues me is how they built receivers pre-De Forest. Spark gap TX is easy, before LORAN-C met it's death, several of the stations had reverted to the 21st Century equivalent of spark. I really do not understand what the Titanic's receiver looked like. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
