Ah, good! I remember my second rig with a built-in VFO, the Ten Tec
PM3A (picked up at a swap meet, the fellow thought it was a cute little
"monitor" receiver without much value, but he did charge $45 that I
happened to have handy.)
Same deal as Doc discussed. Wide as a barn. Listen to both sidebands
at once! I had nice high impedance military headphones and could hear
the whole band, I swear! I got good at picking out the signal I wanted
to hear, sometimes by the intermittent beat note from offending QRM.
Something I would probably not want to put up with today!
I do remember when Ten Tec offered the passive audio CW filter to go in
line with the headphones (a couple of big inductors inside!) I didn't
like the thing and gave it away (wish I had it today, I've seen very
few in existence, cool little accessory for the PM series.)
Clark
WA3JPG
On Jun 17, 2007, at 6:01 PM, W.D. (Doc) Lindsey wrote:
Good Evening:
I always thought I was greatly blessed to start out as a rock bound
Novice
in late 1960 [g]. Especially since I had a super-wide BW receiver
called a
Hallicrafters S-38D. Seemed like I could hear the entire Novice CW
band
without even having to fine-tune. I was forced to learn to pick out
whoever might be calling me. Actually, turned out that stations *had*
been
replying for a couple of days before I could finally recognise *my own
call* [c]. Eventually my frustrated elmer actually drove over to my
house
to point this out! From then on things began to improve....but
verrrrrryyy
slowly.
But the net result of those early trials of 47 years ago is that now I
really CAN copy CW in my head easily, and usually much better without
filtres bands are crowded or there is lots of QSB/QRN. I actually
don't
even particularly want a really complicated rig, preferring the
simplest
(the "ZEN?") CW rigs I can find. Others of course will differ
completely,
and that's their schtick.
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