In the good old days of separate rx + tx I used a Drake 2b + Viking II for
CW (the vast majority of my operating). The 2b was connected to the antenna
through a VT T/R switch. It played back what my TX was doing with
negligibledistortion or overload - a perfect monitor far superior to the
artificial sidetone of any transceiver. Tried many, many transceivers for
the single-knob convenience; found all so far inferior to the 2b +_ as to
be worthless -- until I tried Ten-Tec in the form of a beat-up Triton 544.
Surprize! But the 2b with simple input attenuation is still an excellent
monitor, though there are probably plenty of upper-end receivers that will
work well. A low-end receiver probably will lack the dynamic range to be of
value in the high intensivity field of a normal shack. An added virtue of
the separate receiver is the ease of precise zero beating of a received
signal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "george fritkin" <georgefritkin@yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?
Duane:
Get your volt meter out and measure the DC out of the supply. Make sure
the supply is regulating.
George, W6GF
PS: Using an inexpensive radio is not a good idea. Their BFO's can be
"pulled" on strong signals, giving erroneous signals.
----- Original Message ----
From: JAMES HANLON <knjhanlon@msn.com>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Cc: dw@sover.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:09:14 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?
Duane,
I am "blessed" with many old, "boatanchor" receivers, and I just use one
of them with the antenna terminals shorted and the RF gain turned down to
listen to myself. Perhaps you could find something inexpensive and a bit
better than the S-38 level at a local hamfest or on the web that would do
the trick.
Jim, W8KGI
----- Original Message -----
From: dw<mailto:bw_dw@fastmail.fm>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:55 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?
My 25 amp power supply did a hick-up last week-end and since then I've
received
2 warble reports on 30.
No bad reports on other bands though.
I have a small hand-held icom RC-10 which has cw mode, and I listened to
myself on all bands with it the other day, but I'm not sure if I can
hear the warble or not.
Running the Jupiter.
On one report, I pulled the power down to 75% and was told it was still
there.
Your suggestions highly appreciated.
Tnx
Duane
N1BBR
--
dw
dw@sover.net<mailto:dw@sover.net>
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